Setting mime type for excel document

Question

MS Excel has the following observed MIME types:

• application/vnd.ms-excel (official)
• application/msexcel
• appli

Answer 1

I believe the standard MIME type for Excel files is application/vnd.ms-excel.

Regarding the name of the document, you should set the following header in the response:

header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="name_of_excel_file.xls"');