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    <p>My site is HTML/Javascript with AJAX calling server-side PHP. I want to allow the user to click an icon and create a report from MySQL data and then save this on the client's desktop <strong>without</strong> doing a page reload.</p> <p>Options for creating a doc, as I can gather it, appear to be as follows. (I gather it needs to be done server-side, rather than with Javascript.) I'm not sure where the file ends up in each case. Please feel free to correct my misunderstandings :)</p> <p>Method 1 - this appears only to create a .doc file. I'm not sure where the file gets put.</p> <pre><code>$fp = fopen("method1.doc", 'w+'); $str = "&lt;B&gt;This is the text for the word file created through php programming&lt;/B&gt;"; fwrite($fp, $str); fclose($fp); </code></pre> <p>Method 2 - this also appears to create a .doc file.</p> <pre><code>$word = new COM("word.application") or die ("couldnt create an instance of word"); echo "loaded , word version{$word-&gt;version}"; $word-&gt;visible = 1; $word-&gt;Documents-&gt;Add(); $word-&gt;Selection-&gt;TypeText("Sample text."); $word-&gt;Documents[1]-&gt;SaveAs("method2.doc"); $word-&gt;Quit(); $word-&gt;Release(); $word = null; </code></pre> <p>Method 3 - also a .doc file, I think.</p> <pre><code>header('Content-type: application/vnd.ms-word'); header("Content-Disposition: attachment;Filename=method3.doc"); echo "&lt;html&gt;"; echo "&lt;body&gt;"; echo "&lt;b&gt;My first document&lt;/b&gt;"; echo "&lt;/body&gt;"; echo "&lt;/html&gt;"; </code></pre> <p>Method 4 - PHPWord</p> <p>Method 5 - PHPDocx</p> <p>I've tested 1 &amp; 2 in my home dev environment, but I can't find the files! What's the best way forward, please? </p> <p>Thanks :)</p> <p>BTW, I know there are relevant posts <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7960370/php-dynamically-create-and-download-doc-file">here</a>, <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3342605/how-to-create-a-msword-doc-file-from-php-that-spans-more-than-one-page-using">here</a> and <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4153591/generating-word-documents-with-php">here</a>, but none really answers the question.</p>
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    1. COIn your first and second attempt the file gets saved on the server, not sent to the client. If you need the client to save the file you should output the generated content and set proper response headers, like in your third example (though that won't exactly generate a "proper" Word document).
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