Comments on: CakePHP - Export data to Excel - The easy way!

By: blurp

blurp — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:54:12 +0000

works like a charm
hahaha, this is actually fooling the browser by set the header as xls format
nice one!!

By: eL.

eL. — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:38:09 +0000

brilliant implementation of KISS methodology.

By: Marcus Lenngren

Marcus Lenngren — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:37:38 +0000

Very nice and good post!

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:01:52 +0000

Thanks, mate, good work

By: Bachir El Khoury

Bachir El Khoury — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:47:30 +0000

Gert: yeah I had that problem as well in latest versions of Excel. It doesn’t prevent the doc from opening though like you mentioned.
As in regards to how it looks, you can use CSS to style it if you want.

By: Hanno

Hanno — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:53:10 +0000

Great idea! Never thougt it would be so easy!

By: Gert

Gert — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:04:24 +0000

Thanks; works great!

One thing though: Excel gives the following error “the file you are trying to open ‘report.xls’ is in a different format than specified by the file extension.” ; when I open it it works perfectly, but still doesn’t look too good.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

By: nphp101

nphp101 — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:31:22 +0000

Indeed, simply the best!

By: jgutix

jgutix — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:42:55 +0000

Excellet, thank you very much

By: Bachir El Khoury

Bachir El Khoury — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:21:25 +0000

hey Brett, not sure why that is happening, as long as the model exists and your are rendering the proper view with the proper layout it should work as expected.

If you can zip up the sample code you are working with and send it to info at dnamique dot com, I will be able to help you out.