http - How to show 'Save as' dialog box using PHP for text files

Question

How can I show the 'Save as' dialog box using PHP which will ask the user to download a string as a text file? Basically I will retrieve some values from the database, and want then to be able to download a .txt file which contains this data.

Answer 1

This should work:

header('Content-type: text/plain');
header('Content-disposition: attachment; filename="test.txt"');