Re: export data to a ms excel file using php

On Dec 18, 2007, at 4:05 AM, abderrazzak nejeoui wrote:

can you help me to export data to a ms excel file using php. i tried to export them to an html format and change the extension to .xls that's work but i have lost the formatting excel and the navigator doesn't interpret my code in the same why (celles are not in the same size)

Hi Abderrazzak, This is a script that I use to export to excel, and it works quite well after pulling the info from a Database. If you find any issues with it, let me know so I can try and fix it! But I haven't had any complaints about it yet. <?PHP $sortOrder = $_SESSION['order']; $search = $_SESSION['search']; $select = "SELECT * FROM ".$table." WHERE FName like '%".$search."%' or LName like '%".$search."%' or Add1 like '%".$search."%' or Add2 like '%".$search."%' or City like '%".$search."%' or State like '%".$search."%' or Zip like '%".$search."%' or XCode like '%".$search."%' order by ".$sortOrder.""; $export = mysql_query($select); $fields = mysql_num_fields($export); for ($i = 0; $i < $fields; $i++) { $header .= mysql_field_name($export, $i) . "\t"; } while($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", "", $data); if ($data =="") { $data ="\n(0) Records Found!\n"; } header("Content-type: application/x-msdownload"); header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=Export.xls"); header("Pragma: no-cache"); header("Expires: 0"); print "$header\n$data"; ?> -- Jason Pruim Raoset Inc. Technology Manager MQC Specialist 3251 132nd ave Holland, MI, 49424 www.raoset.com japruim@raoset.com