Use jQuery to send Excel data using AJAX

Question

I have the following function that is pulling data from a database. The ajax call is working correctly. How can I send the tab delimited data in my success function to the

Answer 1

Since it uses JavaScript, AJAX is bound by JavaScript's designed limitations, which includes interacting with other processes on the client's machine. In this case, it's a good thing; you wouldn't want a site to be able to automatically load an Excel document with a malicious macro in it.

If you want to display the data in the browser, you can use AJAX; otherwise, you'll want to just give a link to an Excel document and let the browser's regular download handling capabilities figure out what to do.

Answer 2

AJAX is... the wrong choice. Redirect the user to a server resource that will send the data down with the proper MIME type, and let the browser figure out what to do with it.

Answer 3

It's possible that you don't want to do this with javascript.

What I think you want to do is create a response page with the mine type application/csv then redirect the user to that page. I would probably do a window.open() since the user doesn't lose the page they're currently on.

Answer 4

in HTML I have a Form with serial inputs elements and a button that calls a JavaScript function onclick="exportExcel();

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then in JavaScript file:

function exportExcel(){
    var inputs = $("#myForm").serialize();
    var url = '/ajaxresponse.php?select=exportExcel&'+inputs;
    location.href = url;
}

and finally a pivot file who response to something

PHP code:

case 'exportExcel':{
                     ob_end_clean();
                     header("Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel");
                     header("Content-Disposition: attachment;
                     filename=exportFile.xls");
                     echo $html->List($bd->ResultSet($_GET));
                }

$html is an object who handle html, and $bd is an object that returns data from Database send your own html table or whatever you want.