PHPExcel_Writer_Exception with message “Could not close zip file php://output.”

Question

I\'m using PHPExcel to export some data to user in an excel file. I would like the script to send the excel file to the user immediately after it\'s creation. Here is my tes

Answer 1

Thanks to Mark Baker. His answer has solved the problem. I have written a simple helper method using his approach.

static function SaveViaTempFile($objWriter){
    $filePath = sys_get_temp_dir() . "/" . rand(0, getrandmax()) . rand(0, getrandmax()) . ".tmp";
    $objWriter->save($filePath);
    readfile($filePath);
    unlink($filePath);
}

And I have just replaced $objWriter->save('php://output') with SaveViaTempFile($objWriter)