Re: [phpesp-dev] Re: Export Download

[Matthew G. <gr...@mu...>]

Since I didn't get any feedback on this idea, I went ahead an created the 
attached patch against current CVS.

I'm sure it's lacking somewhere so...comments?

--On Saturday, March 23, 2002 10:09:27 AM -0500 Matthew Gregg 
<gr...@mu...> wrote:

> I've got this roughed in and working.
> I'm getting around headers/data being sent as follows:
> In export.inc on the CSV download url, I'm adding another parameter that
> is used in manage.php and when export.inc is called later to bypass any
> headers or data being sent.
>
> At your suggestion I split survey_export_cvs() into survey_export_cvs()
> and survey_generate_cvs()
>
> As for as mime types:
> I'm considering "application/x-msexcel" or "text/plain-text".  We've used
> x-msexcel before to "trick" excel into opening tab delimited text files.
> Not sure how it will work for csv.
>
> How's this sound?
>
>
> --On Friday, March 22, 2002 03:00:06 PM -0500 "James E. Flemer"
> <jf...@ac...> wrote:
>
>> Please do! How do you plan to do this? I was thinking that
>> there would have to be some script outside the
>> admin/include framework to do this (since by then there are
>> already headers/data sent). This script outside should use
>> a content-type of "application/x-csv"(?) and return the
>> actual csv data. I would suggest splitting the exising
>> survey_export_cvs() into:
>>    survey_generate_cvs() -- creates a string/array of data
>>    survey_export_cvs() -- calls generate, and writes to file
>> Then your download script could call generate, and just
>> print the appropriate headers then the data directly.
>>
>> -James
>>
>> On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Matthew Gregg wrote:
>>
>>> Cool.  Since that was done so fast.  I can move on to the next change.
>>> Unless someone objects or has already started it, I would like to add
>>> "download" to the export function.
>>
>
>
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