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Hi, I have a non-profit website that I've developed with PHP. I'm trying to make the logged in users can output letters in Word with selected data from a query in MySQL. I've tried to use PHPWord, the letters outputted with no data in the letters. Also I tried used PHP COM, but Hostforlife won't let me restart the server because it is shared. 

Lastly I wrote a SELECT query with INTO OUTFILE '$file' to create a CSV which the users could download and use to merge into Word, but because the database user does not have FILE access, it produces this error:

 

Error: Access denied for user 'blabla'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

 

I think Hostforlife will not allow FILE privileges on a shared server. So, how can I get around this. Somehow I want to be able to at least write the query and download the data. Javascript? jQuery? or Something else? Any of you can help me?

 

Thanks in advance :)

This is the download function that I use.

function sql2csv($mysqli, $sql, $filename='', $headings=1)
        /**
        * Parameters
        * $mysqli   -   connection
        * $sql      -   the sql query to be executed
        * $filename -   name of download file (default "download_yymmddhhii.csv")
        * $headings -   1 if fieldname headings required (default), 0 if not required
        */
{
    if (!$filename)
        $f = 'download_' . date('ymdhi') . '.csv';
    else 
         $f = $filename;
    $fp = fopen('php://output', 'w');        // so you can fputcsv to STDOUT
    if ($fp) {
        $res = $mysqli->query($sql);
        if ($res) {
            header('Content-Type: text/csv');
            header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$f.'"');
            header('Pragma: no-cache');
            header('Expires: 0');
            $row = $res->fetch_assoc();
            if ($headings) {
                fputcsv($fp, array_keys($row));
            }
            do {
                fputcsv($fp, $row);
            } while ($row = $res->fetch_assoc());
            
        }
        else echo "Error in query";
        fclose($fp);
    }
    
}

Use it in a php file that you link to with a download link.

  • 2 months later...

apologies, this was my first function, I have the function working now, but still the excel file contains the echo's from the webpage + the data from the the query..

 

like so

 

<head>               <title>Newfies Page</title>             </head>                               <body>               <h2>Lets take a look at a table :)</h2>                                                           exporting!</br>created newfies table</br>prepared 1000 numbers7415354264   7428357984               7428748979               7500332817               7504051767               7504299246               7504822797               7505149835               7506677762               7506878021               7510330942               7510935466               7510941052               7511362543               7511732442               7511889806               7512215911               7512575544               7513832701              

 

Here is my code:

require('test.php');

sql2csv($db_mysqli, $sql, $filename='myNewfile.csv', $headings=0);

}
?>
<?php

$sql = 'SELECT * FROM newfies';

function sql2csv($db_mysqli, $sql, $filename='', $headings=0)

{
    if (!$filename)
        $f = 'download_' . date('ymdhi') . '.csv';
    else 
         $f = $filename;
    $fp = fopen('php://output', 'w');        // so you can fputcsv to STDOUT
    if ($fp) {
        $res = $db_mysqli->query($sql);
        if ($res) {
            header('Content-Type: text/csv');
            header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$f.'"');
            header('Pragma: no-cache');
            header('Expires: 0');
            $row = $res->fetch_assoc();
            if ($headings) {
                fputcsv($fp, array_keys($row),'|');
            }
            do {
                fputcsv($fp, $row);
            } while ($row = $res->fetch_assoc());
            
        }
        else echo "Error in query";
        fclose($fp);
    }
    
}



?>

File 1

<a href="file2.php">Download newfies</a>

File2.php (the download code goes in a file of its own)

    <?php
     
    $sql = 'SELECT * FROM newfies';
    sql2csv($db_mysqli, $sql, $filename='myNewfile.csv', $headings=0);

 
    function sql2csv($db_mysqli, $sql, $filename='', $headings=0)
     
    {
        if (!$filename)
            $f = 'download_' . date('ymdhi') . '.csv';
        else 
             $f = $filename;
        $fp = fopen('php://output', 'w');        // so you can fputcsv to STDOUT
        if ($fp) {
            $res = $db_mysqli->query($sql);
            if ($res) {
                header('Content-Type: text/csv');
                header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'.$f.'"');
                header('Pragma: no-cache');
                header('Expires: 0');
                $row = $res->fetch_assoc();
                if ($headings) {
                    fputcsv($fp, array_keys($row),'|');
                }
                do {
                    fputcsv($fp, $row);
                } while ($row = $res->fetch_assoc());
                
            }
            else echo "Error in query";
            fclose($fp);
        }
        
    }
     
     
     
    ?>
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