export table to xls (or cvs)?

[kemper]

How can I code to export a table to Excel (or cvs file)?

 

I have my youth sports schedule that I am repeatedly asked to send as Excel file.  I want to have a link for my members to download to Excel (preferred, but can settle for cvs file).

 

Assistance is greatly appreciated.

[AndyB]

For better or worse (and only as an example), here's a script I use. Adjustments should be obvious:

 

<?php
include("support/db-conn.php");
mysql_connect($db_host, $db_login, $db_pass) or die ("Can't connect!"); 
mysql_select_db($db_name) or die ("Can't open database!"); 
$db_table = "dm_scratchpad";

$p="scratchpad_". date("Y-m-d"). ".csv";
$CSV = "Posted_LocalDate,Posted_LocalTime,Message,Importance,Deleted_LocalTime\n"; // headers

$query = "SELECT * FROM $db_table ORDER by posted ASC";
$result = mysql_query($query);
while($myrow = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
    $CSV.= $myrow[posted]. ",";
    $CSV.= $myrow[timed]. ",";
$message = str_replace("\r\n"," ",$myrow['message']);
$message = str_replace(","," ", $message);
    $CSV.= $message. ",";
    $CSV.= $myrow[importance]. ",";
    $CSV.= $myrow[deleted]. "\n";
}
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$p\"");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
if(strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'MSIE')){
    // IE cannot download from sessions without a cache
    header('Cache-Control: public');
}
echo $CSV;
exit;
?>

[kemper]

Thanks.

 

I did find a working script while Googling.

 

<?php
$host = 'localhost';
$user = 'mysqlUser';
$pass = 'myUserPass';
$db = 'myDatabase';
$table = 'products_info';
$file = 'export';

$link = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) or die("Can not connect." . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db($db) or die("Can not connect.");

$result = mysql_query("SHOW COLUMNS FROM ".$table."");
$i = 0;
if (mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) {
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
$csv_output .= $row['Field'].", ";
$i++;
}
}
$csv_output .= "\n";

$values = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM ".$table."");
while ($rowr = mysql_fetch_row($values)) {
for ($j=0;$j<$i;$j++) {
$csv_output .= $rowr[$j].", ";
}
$csv_output .= "\n";
}

$filename = $file."_".date("Y-m-d_H-i",time());
header("Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel");
header("Content-disposition: csv" . date("Y-m-d") . ".csv");
header( "Content-disposition: filename=".$filename.".csv");
print $csv_output;
exit;
?>