Having been sorting this out myself recently, i'll also add that you can look at the locale module for an example of this in core, and importexport module (and probably several others) for contrib examples that export CSV or similar files. http://api.drupal.org/api/5/function/_locale_export_po -Peter ----- From: Moshe Weitzman <weitzman@tejasa.com> To: development@drupal.org Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:26:10 -0500 Subject: Re: [development] How do I send a file to the user? Ernst Plüss wrote:
Hi
I want to do the following: The users fills out a form and depending on that data an excel export is generated. The user should be prompted to store/open the file.
The code to create the excel data is working fine.
But I don't know how to do the file sending stuff? Is hook_file_download the right way to go? If yes, after I have the excel file content stored in a variable how does it get to the implementation of hook_file_download?
TIA Ernst
no, thats not the right function. you just need to send the right http headers and then print out your excel data. see http://us2.php.net/header. you can use that function directly. no benefit to going through drupal here.