Question

I am trying to export MySQL data to CSV file. It works fine on all browsers, but having issue only on MAC system. The file gets downloaded as filename.csv.xls which should be filename.csv I have tried all possible solutions but nothing seems to work. am I missing something here? Below is the source code.

<?php
header("Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel"); 
header("Content-Disposition:csv" . date("Y-m-d")); 
header( "Content-disposition: filename="file.csv");
print $csv_output;
exit;
?>

Thanks

Answer 1

It may be your content-type header. Try this instead:

header("Content-type: text/csv");

A security note:
I also noticed you are open to SQL injection. You should always pass your variables through mysql_real_escape_string especially since you are not even sanitizing the data. You are also using mysql instead of the improved mysqli.