Question

I am developing a script using PHP to
save a file to desktop as .csv file.

I found this code sample from PHP Manual.

<?php
$list = array (
array('aaa', 'bbb', 'ccc', 'dddd'),
array('123', '456', '789'),
array('"aaa"', '"bbb"')
);
$fp = fopen('file.csv', 'w');
foreach ($list as $fields) {
fputcsv($fp, $fields);
}
fclose($fp);
?>  

I created file.csv on my desktop.
My issue is I cannot find the correct path
to open the file on the desktop and,
write and save. ($fp = fopen(‘file.csv’, ‘w’))

Should I have to show the path to server
where I stored my web site and
from there to to desk top’s file.csv?

Can somebody guide me?

Thank you very much.

Answer 1

<?php
$list = array (
    array('aaa', 'bbb', 'ccc', 'dddd'),
    array('123', '456', '789'),
    array('"aaa"', '"bbb"')
);
header('Content-type: text/csv');
header("Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=file.csv");

// stream
$f  =   fopen('php://output', 'a');
foreach ($list as $fields) {
    fputcsv($f, $fields);
}