Download the Excel File using Php
The given code is used to download the excel file using php or codeigniter. Here just normally given to the php code.
- First header describe to content type to extract the application text like which type of document.
- Second header is to give the content description to attach the file format for we need it.
- Next header is pragma to display the type to format.
- last one is display the file expires day to given in that attribute.
- finally we create the design and data for the files. that depends on the file format. in excel we must using tables because then we get sufficient content format.
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=excelfile.xls"); 
