Joomla Exporting Or Downloading Reports To CSV - excel

Question

I have the following code in my inventory section when i run this code it save an excel file but the result showing the whole html file not my data.
<?php
$csv = NULL;
$arr = array("product_name","product_sku","product_in_stock","virtuemart_product_id","product_price_display","product_instock_value");
$csv = "Product Name, Product SKU, In Stock, Booked ordered products, Cost Price, Stock Value \n";
$c=0;
while(list($key,$value)=each($arr)){
$c++;
$cc=1;
foreach ($this->inventorylist as $key => $product){
$cc++;
$csv .= join(',',array($product->product_name.",".$product->product_sku.",".$product->product_in_stock.",".$product->virtuemart_product_id.",".$product->product_price_display.",".$product->product_instock_value))." \n";
}
}
JResponse::clearHeaders();
JResponse::setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/vnd.ms-excel', true);
JResponse::setHeader('Content-Disposition', 'csv; filename=inventory_report.csv; size='.strlen($csv), true);
JResponse::sendHeaders();
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks
Khalique

Answer 1

Here's the brute force solution just to get you going:
header("Content-type: text/csv");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=file.csv");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");
// Echo the csv content.
echo "foo,bar\n1,2";
// Close the application gracefully.
JFactory::getApplication()->close();
A slightly cleaner way without using views, but including &format=raw in the URL is:
$app = JFactory::getApplication();
$doc = JFactory::getDocument();
$doc->setMimeEncoding('application/vnd.ms-excel');
$app->setHeader(
'Content-disposition',
'attachment; filename="inventory_report.csv"',
true
);
echo "foo,bar\n1,2";
But the best way is to use a download view based on the raw document type. You can find an example of this in com_banners:
Controller: https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/blob/staging/administrator/components/com_banners/controllers/tracks.raw.php
View: https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/blob/staging/administrator/components/com_banners/views/tracks/view.raw.php
You might also gain some extra insight from this discussion https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/joomla-dev-general/dRa_39AGDBY