Zend Framework 2 - Rendering CSV data

Question

i have a model that returns car data with id, name, price etc. So i have a car controller and a csv action that fetches this data from a model:

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Answer 1

One solution would be to return a Response object directly from the controller.

Something like this stands a good chance of working:

public function downloadAction()
{
    // magically create $content as a string containing CSV data

    $response = $this->getResponse();
    $headers = $response->getHeaders();
    $headers->addHeaderLine('Content-Type', 'text/csv');
    $headers->addHeaderLine('Content-Disposition', "attachment; filename=\"my_filen.csv\"");
    $headers->addHeaderLine('Accept-Ranges', 'bytes');
    $headers->addHeaderLine('Content-Length', strlen($content));

    $response->setContent($content);
    return $response;
}

(Note that I haven't tested this code, but have updated in line with comment!)