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Can I return other file formats (like Word, Excel, etc) using PHP?

Apr 29th, 2001 20:19
Philip Olson, Nathan Wallace,

As long as you know how to output data in those formats that is easy. 
All you need to do is to set the Content-Type:  header to the respective
MIME type of the output format.  For instance for the Excel format you
would do:
    Header("Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel");
If you want to set the file name of outputted data you may want to do as
follows:
    Header("Content-Location: ". $file_name);
    Header("Content-Disposition: filename=". $file_name);
Be sure to view this tutorial (and user comments) :
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