Reputation: 509
I was wondering if someone could help me out.
I have some code which takes an array and puts it into csv format, at the moment, it saves the file to the server, but i want the user to be able to download the csv instead and nothing im trying is working.
Currently my function looks like this
public function postForm() {
$exportType = Input::get('exportType');
$data = Session::get('data');
if ( $exportType == 'csv' ) {
$fp = fopen('csvExport.csv', 'w');
foreach( $data as $fields ) {
fputcsv($fp, $fields);
}
fclose($fp);
} else {
// Other function here
}
return Response::json( array('result' => true) );
}
Can anyone help me out please, any help would be really greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Upvotes: 0
Views: 270
Reputation: 60088
If you want the user to download the file - you need to 'return' the file to them as the Response
return Response::download('csvExport.csv');
Upvotes: 1