Posted by Oli Filth on 09/17/05 21:31

Michael Vilain said the following on 17/09/2005 19:27:
> In article <1126970803.337223.35680@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
> "bobkaku" <bobkaku@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>>I had a PHP script that used to successfully output to Excel 2000. I
>>used the header statements
>> header ('Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel');
>> header ('Content-disposition: inline; filename=output.htm');
>>
>>Last year I upgraded to Excel 2003, and now the output is just a table
>>that shows up in the browser.
>>
>>Does anybody know what might be problem?
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>
>
> change the name of the file to output.xls
>

The file-name is irrelevant assuming you are sending the correct MIME-type.

Try "Content-disposition: attachment" instead.



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Oli

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