Question

i’m sending an XLS file with the header. Everything is working fine. But when i tell it to print the tab to separate the cells in the XLS by print \t. It does not prints the tab. It just prints the ‘\t’ in the file and when i download the XLS file everything that should be in different cell is all in one cell with text like:

val1\tval2\tval3\t

Those three values should be separate in their separate cells.
i have been trying for 2 hours now nothing is working :(.

i send headers like this:

header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=".$filename.$fileextention);
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");

and just print the values like

echo $val1 . '\t' . $val2 . '\t' . $val3;

i have tried using single or double quts. and print and echo both buy still 🙁

Answer 1

Try this (see quotes)

header('Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel');
echo "val1\tval2\tval3";