generally we are exporting excel or csv file,
here i want to do the same process in ms word document.

hai it is very simple please run these simple program
In the test.php type these coding
<a href="export.php">click here</a>
and save it after open the new page and save the file name as export.php
in the export.php file type this coding
<?php
$vExcelFileName="export". ".doc";
header("Content-type: application/x-ms-download"); //#-- build header to download the excel file
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$vExcelFileName");
header('Cache-Control: public');
echo "hai";
?>

so if u click the (click here) link in test.php means one window will open for open or saving the document file.
in the document file with the words (hai).


if u need to expotr the details to excel sheet means change the extension
for example
$vExcelFileName="export". ".xls";

thank u....................

Sorry for hitting an old comment but this is fascinating!! Can you please elaborate and share some code on how this is done? I could not make your example work getting "Warning: Cannot modify header information " for each of your header references.. Thank You

HI,
Just make sure that your page does not have any values printed before to execute the above example and use ob_clean before you are calling this header definition

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Hi,

I have tried your codes
<?php
$vExcelFileName="export". ".doc";
header("Content-type: application/x-ms-download"); //#-- build header to download the excel file
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$vExcelFileName");
header('Cache-Control: public');
echo "hai";
?>

How can I make to have the echo "hai"; to be like a dynamic one. Say I have a form in my other page then I post some data in the form. And when I click on the save button and set the action to your export.php then the data in my forms will be the one to be exported to a word file.

Please help I badly needed to make this work. Thanks in advance