Export to Excel - Doesn't prompt for download - HELP PLEASE

[onuytten]

I have followed a tutorial on phpFreaks http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/114/0.php to export mysql table data to ms excel. It prints the data to the screen but doesn't prompt for download.

Here's my code:

 

<?php

 

$user="user";

  $host="localhost";

  $password="pass";

  $database = "db";

  $connection = mysql_connect($host,$user,$password)

  or die ("couldn't connect to server");

  if ($db = mysql_select_db($database,$connection))

      echo"connection successful";

     

if (check_valid_user_admin())

{

 

$select = "SELECT * FROM tbl_applicants";               

$export = mysql_query($select);

$fields = mysql_num_fields($export);

 

for ($i = 0; $i < $fields; $i++) {

    $header .= mysql_field_name($export, $i) . "\t"; }

 

while($row = mysql_fetch_row($export)) {

    $line = '';

    foreach($row as $value) {                                           

        if ((!isset($value)) OR ($value == "")) {

            $value = "\t";

        } else {

            $value = str_replace('"', '""', $value);

            $value = '"' . $value . '"' . "\t";

        }

        $line .= $value;

    }

    $data .= trim($line)."\n";

}

$data = str_replace("\r","",$data);

 

if ($data == "") {

    $data = "\n(0) Records Found!\n";                       

}

$suffix = date(dmy);

header("Content-type: application/x-msdownload");

header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=cap_roster_export.xls");

header("Pragma: no-cache");

header("Expires: 0");

print "$header\n$data"; 

 

}

 

?>     

 

All the data looks like it's formatted well but just shows up on the page and never prompts for download.

 

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Please help me!

Thanks in advance,

Olivier