download generated excel file on the fly after generation - php

Question

I've created an excel file with phpexcel and successfully save it on the server. but what I really want to do is to say the browser to download this file on the fly. is there any solution for this?
here is my code :
$objPHPExcel = new PHPExcel();
$objPHPExcel->setActiveSheetIndex(0);
$col = 0;
foreach ($json[0] as $key => $value) {
$a = $key;
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValueByColumnAndRow($col, 1, $key);
$col++;
}
$row = 2;
foreach ($json as $itemGroup) {
$col = 0;
foreach ($itemGroup as $key => $value) {
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValueByColumnAndRow($col, $row, $value);
$col++;
}
$row++;
}
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setTitle('Report');
$objWriter = new PHPExcel_Writer_Excel2007($objPHPExcel);
try {
$fileName = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
$objWriter->save('/uploaded_images/generatedReports/' . $fileName . '.xlsx');
return true;
} catch (Exception $exc) {
return false;
}

Answer 1

Look at the example 01simple-download-xlsx.php which shows the headers to set and that you should save to php://output rather than to a "named" file

Answer 2

header('Location : /uploaded_images/generatedReports/' . $fileName . '.xlsx');

Answer 3

Tried with the attachment header ?
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=your_file.xls");

Answer 4

Berofe returning true in try block you have to use header method for downloadable action
$filename ="excelreport.xls";
header('Content-type: application/ms-excel');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.$filename);
echo "your content \t you next tabcontent \n your next line content \t"

Answer 5

You can set the appropriate headers, and use 'php://stdout' as the output filename.
e.g.
$filename = date("Y-m-d H:i:s").'.xls';
header('Content-type: application/ms-excel');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.$filename);
$objWriter->save('php://stdout');
return true;