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How to download records into a text file using php?

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Aim:

A php page with a button which when you click it allows you to download a text file with rows each on a new line in a text file.

Ie:

database:table:

id
name
secondname
email

Then a PHP page:

*button* click this button to download text file with emails in it

//

then the suer can download the text file containing the emails, each one on a new line.

Hope someone can help me or point me in the right direction/

Kind regards
Notting

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Read over: http://us.php.net/fwrite to find out how to write to a text file.

Then this function found on the web will force a download of a file.
http://us.php.net/readfile said:
_Download("files_dir/".$file, $file);

function _Download($f_location,$f_name){
     header ("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
    header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
    header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
    header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($f_location));
    header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . basename($f_name));
    readfile($f_location);
 }

?>
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