I'm trying to export a database table as a .csv downloadable from the browser. My code is zend framework based and I'm almost there with the following action:
public function exportTableAction()
{
$this->_helper->layout->disableLayout();
$this->_helper->viewRenderer->setNoRender();
$fileName = $this->_getParam('fileName');
$tableName = $this->_getParam('tableName');
header('Content-type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$fileName.'"');
echo $this->getCsv($tableName, $fileName);
}
I can download my .csv file containing valid data. However, even if I disabled the layout and the renderer, I still get the output of the header, sidebar, and footer of my page at the end of my .csv file. Is there a way to disable any html output other than the one generated in my exportTableAction? Or can I send the header information and the csv string to the browser in a different way?
BTW: I'm using the action stack plugin to help me render the header and sidebar as follows:
...
$actionStack = $front->getPlugin('Zend_Controller_Plugin_ActionStack');
$actionStack->pushStack($userlogAction);
$actionStack->pushStack($rightcolAction);
Cheers, Adrian
We found a solution to the problem. I replaced the following line
$this->_helper->viewRenderer->setNoRender();
by
$this->_helper->viewRenderer->setNeverRender();
If setNeverRender() is used, no views are rendered (from plugin neither).
You can use contextSwitch action helper.
public $contexts = array(
'test' => array('csv')
);
public function testAction()
{
$filename = time() . '.csv';
$this->_helper->contextSwitch()->addContext('csv',
array('suffix' => 'csv',
'headers' => array('Content-Type' => 'application/csv',
'Content-Disposition' => 'attachment; filename="'. $filename.'"')))->initContext('csv');
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}
$this->_helper->viewRenderer->setNoRender();
$this->view->layout()->disableLayout();
$response = $this->getResponse();
$response->setHeader('Content-type', 'application/octet-stream');
$response->setHeader('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename="contatos.csv"');
echo $your_csv_content;
public function getCsv($tableName, $fileName)
{
$content = new $tableName();
$content_arr = array();
$content_arr = $content->fetchAll('1=1','id ASC');
$csv_terminated = "\n";
$csv_separator = ",";
$csv_enclosed = '"';
$csv_escaped = "\\";
$schema_insert = "";
$l = $csv_enclosed . str_replace($csv_enclosed, $csv_escaped . $csv_enclosed,
stripslashes("Email Address")) . $csv_enclosed;
$schema_insert .= $l;
$schema_insert .= $csv_separator;
$l = $csv_enclosed . str_replace($csv_enclosed, $csv_escaped . $csv_enclosed,
stripslashes("Add Date")) . $csv_enclosed;
$schema_insert .= $l;
$schema_insert .= $csv_separator;
$out = trim(substr($schema_insert, 0, -1));
$out .= $csv_terminated;
if(count($content_arr) > 0)
{
foreach($content_arr as $content)
{
$schema_insert = '';
if ($content->email != '' || $content->add_date != '')
{
$schema_insert .= $csv_enclosed .
str_replace($csv_enclosed, $csv_escaped . $csv_enclosed, $content->email) . $csv_enclosed;
$schema_insert .= $csv_separator;
$schema_insert .= $csv_enclosed .
str_replace($csv_enclosed, $csv_escaped . $csv_enclosed, $content->add_date) . $csv_enclosed;
$schema_insert .= $csv_separator;
}
$schema_insert .= $csv_separator;
$out .= $schema_insert;
$out .= $csv_terminated;
}
}
return $out;
}`