Convert Form Information To Microsoft Excel or CSV File

[hicksjt]

Hello,

 

Is there a way using PHP to have the fields of a HTML form be written out to a Microsoft Excel CSV file on the server (as part of the form processing) and then have that Excel/CSV file emailed to someone. Thanks for any feedback.

 

This may be a start:

 

<?php

 

$cr = "\n";

$data = "Name" . ',' . "Email" . ',' . "Age" . ',' "Location". $cr;

$data .= "$name" . ',' . "$email" . ',' . "$age" . ',' "$location". $cr;

 

$fp = fopen($filename,"a"); // $fp is now the file pointer to file $filename

 

if($fp)

{

fwrite($fp,$data); // write information to the file

fclose($fp); //close the file

echo "File Saved Successfully"

}

else

{

echo "Error Saving File";

}

 

header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");

header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=test.csv");

header("Pragma: no-cache");

header("Expires: 0");

 

echo $data;

 

?>

[hicksjt]

 

Anyone?

[slpctrl]

<?php
//Written by Dan Zarrella. Some additional tweaks provided by JP Honeywell
//pear excel package has support for fonts and formulas etc.. more complicated
//this is good for quick table dumps (deliverables)

include('DB_connection.php');
$result = mysql_query('select * from excel_test', $linkID);
$count = mysql_num_fields($result);

for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++){
    $header .= mysql_field_name($result, $i)."\t";
}

while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)){
  $line = '';
  foreach($row as $value){
    if(!isset($value) || $value == ""){
      $value = "\t";
    }else{
# important to escape any quotes to preserve them in the data.
      $value = str_replace('"', '""', $value);
# needed to encapsulate data in quotes because some data might be multi line.
# the good news is that numbers remain numbers in Excel even though quoted.
      $value = '"' . $value . '"' . "\t";
    }
    $line .= $value;
  }
  $data .= trim($line)."\n";
}
# this line is needed because returns embedded in the data have "\r"
# and this looks like a "box character" in Excel
  $data = str_replace("\r", "", $data);


# Nice to let someone know that the search came up empty.
# Otherwise only the column name headers will be output to Excel.
if ($data == "") {
  $data = "\nno matching records found\n";
}

# This line will stream the file to the user rather than spray it across the screen
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");

# replace excelfile.xls with whatever you want the filename to default to
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=excelfile.xls");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");

echo $header."\n".$data;
?> 

 

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