Exporting to microsoft word documents

[eluser]Crafter[/eluser]
Hey Derek, long time...

Quite correct on your header.

Here's how I force the page into the office application (and give it a file name too!

Code:

header("Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-word");
   header("Expires: 0");
   header("Cache-Control:  must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
   header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"mydocument_name.doc\"");

   $output = $this->load->view("myreport", $mydata);
   echo $data;
   exit;

  // ...or just use
  // ...$this->load->view("myreport"< $mydata, true);