Comments on: Export MySQL table to Excel file using php script

By: John

John — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:53:45 +0000

Thank you man….

By: atpaz

atpaz — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:40:35 +0000

@John,
Hi, it’s simple you can edit the code at header response (line 62 – 67) with the code to write $data to file. Here is example :

[php]

$filename = ‘export_result.csv’;
$somecontent = $data;

// Let’s make sure the file exists and is writable first.
if (is_writable($filename)) {

// In our example we’re opening $filename in append mode.
// The file pointer is at the bottom of the file hence
// that’s where $somecontent will go when we fwrite() it.
if (!$handle = fopen($filename, ‘a’)) {
echo “Cannot open file ($filename)”;
exit;
}

// Write $somecontent to our opened file.
if (fwrite($handle, $somecontent) === FALSE) {
echo “Cannot write to file ($filename)”;
exit;
}

echo “Success, wrote ($somecontent) to file ($filename)”;

fclose($handle);

} else {
echo “The file $filename is not writable”;
}

[/php]

By: John

John — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:19:36 +0000

How to save it automatically to server? not to download it?

By: Davi

Davi — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:51:49 +0000

It really works, thanks a lot!

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:26:11 +0000

It doesn`t works !!!!! doesn`t appear dialog box… asking for downloading file.
nevertheless Thanks.

By: Andi Haehlen

Andi Haehlen — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:51:44 +0000

i found that the script ignores the last record fetched from the datatable (for example: from 100 records, only 99 are transferred to excel). if in line 71 $header.”\n” is removed, all the records show up in excel.

to make things easier, i’ve simply replaced all occurences of $header with $data, so the header and the record data is filled into a single variable ($data). this works just fine.