export to excel

[eluser]syntaxerror[/eluser]
hi,
can anyone please tell me how to export data to excel using codeigniter?
i have already made a program, but i have to export it to excel.
how can i do it with codeigniter?

thanks

[eluser]johnwbaxter[/eluser]
http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Excel_Plugin/

[eluser]syntaxerror[/eluser]
thanks for the help,
but im not getting the data from table or database, just from a text file.
somehow i figure it out how.
but one more thing, from view, how can i call the variables to controller?