I had actually noticed this a little bit ago when browsing the php.net site.

The only concern that now lies is within larger sites it can be a task to move from 5.2 to 5.3 if it has some aged code and/or some developers using some less than favorable coding practices (lets just start with [shudder] short tags)

The good thing that does come of this is that we’re now forced to find those issues and fix them (things were depreciated for a reason).

In any capacity it’s time to upgrade, as it still amazes me how many sites are still running PHP4, never mind 5.2.


header("Content-Type", "text/csv", true);
header("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename='my-filename.csv'", true);
$fp = fopen("php://stdout", "w");


Then do your normal fputcsv() stuff. Don’t forget to send the headers prior to opening that pointer. Much simpler than writing to a temp file and reading it back later if all you’re doing is sending it to the user ;)

http://devzone.zend.com/article/638