Question

I have an issue, my application works as follows.

First echo to the user that the generating of the csv file has started.

eg. echo 'Building of csv file started';

then I build the csv file.

Now I want to force the file to download, and this works perfectly.

this is my code

    header('Content-Type: application/csv');
    header('Content-Disposition:attachment;filename='.$year.'_'.$month.'_'.'export.csv');
    header('Pragma: no-cache');

    echo readfile($myFile);

No the first echo ‘Building of csv file started’ gets included in the CSV file and I do not know how to exlude it.

Answer 1

The solution is really easy.
As you want two different header types you have to create 2 different pages.

The first page displaying “Building of csv file started” and containing an iframe with your second page and a second page with your real csv file and the attachment header.