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I am using Magento CE-1.9.2.x in my website.

Now I want Catalog >> Manage Products >> Actions select box to include the Export Products to XLS option, with only a custom controller and custom action in background to be able to export products to xls format.

I have seen content-type of application/octet-stream is allowed in _prepareDownloadResponse() function, how this can help me and also what should be column-separator for xls format ?

I want this with default Magento functions without the use of any third party libraries.

I have searched a lot on Google but couldn't find a reliable code block or post for this.

Hope anyone here can help me out.

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  • The admin controllers you extend have the functions to generate excel files, you just need to call them. See core controllers for examples
    – scrowler
    Commented Dec 24, 2015 at 5:52
  • I saw the core-controllers, but haven't been able to figure out the format and separator things, can you provide an example for xls generation ?
    – Vicky Dev
    Commented Dec 24, 2015 at 5:54

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.csv use "," seperated.

while .xls format uses tab seperated.

so remove "," and replace with Tab or "\t".

I hope this will help you.

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The file generation isn't in controller the grid block is who performs such actions, so you should...

  1. Add a massiveAction in the main form block (add the action option)
  2. Add a controller action to route process/validate params (products selection) and instantiate right grid block
  3. Create a grid block to filter, prepare columns and load the collection and then returns to controller to be exported.

You can check the reports/sales/orders/ structure to figure out how to do these steps.

I don't know how xls format works, but i'm pretty sure that you could find a xls library in Zend Framework. Remember that any CSV could be perfectly opened in excel and you can natively export products in that format.

Anyway I have to say.. I don't thing that this would be a good idea due to complexity of catalog product entities. I strongly recommend to use another tool like import/export or data-flow profile to do that. If you have a couple of different attributes sets and export all products you could exceed the limit of joins that mysql can handle.

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