Re: [phpesp-dev] Re: Export Download

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

I've modified your patch a little bit. Take a look and see
what you all think. It allows people to still export data
to a file, and also download it. I also changed the content
type to "application/x-csv" since "text/plain-text" is not
a real content type (and when it is "text/plain" it shows
inline, not a save as box). We could also try
"application/x-msexcel", tho I believe there is another
preferred type for Excel.

-James

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Matthew Gregg wrote:

> 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?