Another question about functions...

From: Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:07:17 +0000
Subject: Another question about functions...
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HI everyone, I think I'm getting closer to understanding functions, but I'm blanking on how to fix a problem that I have... I am attempting to export a database to excel, which was working before converting the code into a function. What's happening is, I have the code set and it downloads the file into excel, but it doesn't have the database fields in it, rather a copy of the entire webpage which it trys to put into excel. Below is the code that I am using in my function to export the records: <?PHP function excelexportfunc($select, $sortOrder, $exportdate) { $export = mysql_query($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 =="") { $data ="\n(0) Records Found!\n"; } header("Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel"); header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=Export.".$exportdate.".xls"); header("Pragma: no-cache"); header("Expires: 0"); print "$header\n$data"; } ?> I am calling the function like so: "excelexportfunc($select, $sortOrder, $exportdate);" the $select is specified in an IF statement on the calling page like so: if($exportoption =="all"){ $sortOrder= $_SESSION['order']; $search = ""; $select = "SELECT * FROM ".$table." order by ".$sortOrder.""; }else{ $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.""; } If anyone has any ideas I would love to hear about them. Hopefully it's just a simple "." in the wrong place! :) -- Jason Pruim Raoset Inc. Technology Manager MQC Specialist 3251 132nd ave Holland, MI, 49424 www.raoset.com japruim@raoset.com

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