I'm a relative newbie to PHP, but have been able to put together some PHP
code to generate a CSV/XLS file from a Query result. Now, I would like to
include custom column names instead of the MySQL column table names. I know
that there are codes to generate tabs and carriage returns, but can't find
anything about including "commas" in a string to output to the file to
separate the custom field names. I'd appreciate some help with a line of
code to insert those custom column names like:
First Name | Last Name | DOB | etc.
Thanks,
Joe G.
The generated file is set to the company name + date.xls and output the data
correctly. My PHP code is:
<?
@session_start();
// Remove spaces from Company Name
$trim_name = str_replace(" ", "", $co_name);
$file_name=$trim_name.date("mdY").".xls";
echo $file_name;
// Connect to Database
include("dbinfo.inc.php");
mysql_connect(localhost,$username,$pass);
@mysql_select_db($database) or die( "Unable to select database");
// Find the Number of Fields
$select = "SELECT * FROM employee WHERE co_name='$co_name'";
$export = mysql_query($select);
$fields = mysql_num_fields($export);
// Extract Database Fields
for ($i = 0; $i < $fields; $i++) {
$header .= mysql_field_name($export, $i) . "\t";
}
// Extract your Data
while($row = mysql_fetch_row($export)) {
$line = '';
foreach($row as $value) {
if ((!isset($value)) OR ($value == "")) {
$value = "\t";
} else {
$value = str_replace('"', '""', $value);
$value = '"' . $value . '"' . "\t";
}
$line .= $value;
}
$data .= trim($line)."\n";
}
$data = str_replace("\r","",$data);
// Default Message
if ($data == "") {
$data = "\n(0) Records Found!\n";
}
$fp = fopen($file_name,"a"); // $fp is now the file pointer to file
$file_name
if($fp){
$fp = fopen($file_name,"a");
fwrite($fp,$data); // Write information to the file
fclose($fp); // Close the file
echo "File saved successfully";
} else {
echo "Error saving file!";
echo "Use your Browser Back Button to Return";
}
?>
