How to generate PDF files and Mircrosoft Excel spreadsheets from database data using CodeIgniter?

[eluser]Ckirk[/eluser]
Firstly what library (if any) are you used to using to generate Excel docs? If not a library did you just use the HTTP header method?

Either way I'd recommend using something like the PHPExcel library. That would make it the easier method, as requested.
It's pretty straight forward using third party libraries in codeigniter.

For PDF generation I use DOMPDF. Again it's easy to implement.
Here's a tutorial on how to intigrate PHPExcel into codeigniter

The same principle applies, if you want to use DOMPDF.

Hope that helps