Create a file and send to user

[Derek Fountain]

I need to create a data file from my PHP for the user to load into their
word processor as a mail merge data source. Organising the data into rows
of comma separated values isn't too difficult; what puzzles me is how to
get that data into a .txt file somewhere on the user's PC.

How, in general terms, should I go about doing that? Presumably I generate
and present it in some format which causes the browser to issue a "save as"
dialog box?

[sam]

<?php

// The name of the file on the user's pc
$file_name = "toto.txt";

header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: Attachment; filename=$file_name");

// $my_data is the string that holds your data
echo $my_data;

?>
Derek Fountain <no****@hursley.ibm.com> wrote in message news:<3f***********************@freenews.iinet.net .au>...

I need to create a data file from my PHP for the user to load into their
word processor as a mail merge data source. Organising the data into rows
of comma separated values isn't too difficult; what puzzles me is how to
get that data into a .txt file somewhere on the user's PC.

How, in general terms, should I go about doing that? Presumably I generate
and present it in some format which causes the browser to issue a "save as"
dialog box?