html to excel export with .xls extension in javascript or php
<p>I need export html table to excel with .xls extension in <strong>javascript</strong> or <strong>php</strong> </p>

<p>I am using below code but it does not export to file with .xls extension
If possible in php code embedded in javascript code then its fine.</p>

<p><a href="http://jsfiddle.net/insin/cmewv/" rel="nofollow">Link</a> to fiddle.</p>

<pre><code>var tableToExcel = (function() {
 var uri = 'data:application/vnd.ms-excel;base64,', 
 template = '&lt;html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"             
 xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"&gt;
 &lt;head&gt;
 &lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;
 &lt;xml&gt;
 &lt;x:ExcelWorkbook&gt;&lt;x:ExcelWorksheets&gt;&lt;x:ExcelWorksheet&gt;     
 &lt;x:Name&gt;
  {worksheet}
 &lt;/x:Name&gt;
 &lt;x:WorksheetOptions&gt;
  &lt;x:DisplayGridlines/&gt;
 &lt;/x:WorksheetOptions&gt;
 &lt;/x:ExcelWorksheet&gt;&lt;/x:ExcelWorksheets&gt;&lt;/x:ExcelWorkbook&gt;
 &lt;/xml&gt;
 &lt;![endif]--&gt;
 &lt;/head&gt;
 &lt;body&gt;
 &lt;table&gt;{table}&lt;/table&gt;
 &lt;/body&gt;
 &lt;/html&gt;'
 ,base64 = function(s) { return window.btoa(unescape(encodeURIComponent(s))); }
 ,format = function(s, c) { return s.replace(/{(\w+)}/g, function(m, p) { return c[p];}) }
 return function(table, name) {
  if (!table.nodeType) table = document.getElementById(table)
   var ctx = {worksheet: name || 'Worksheet', table: table.innerHTML}
   window.location.href = uri + base64(format(template, ctx)) 
 }
});
</code></pre>
