Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Export data as XLS using PHP

How to export data as xls using php ?

Need to export database fields as xls file using php

Make sure you are well connected

Configure following to start a Mysql Connection

$DB_Server = DB_HOST; //MySQL Server
$DB_Username = DB_USERNAME; //MySQL Username
$DB_Password = DB_PASSWORD;             //MySQL Password
$DB_DBName = DB_DATABASE;         //MySQL Database Name
$DB_TBLName = 'tablename'; //MySQL Table Name
$filename =   'data'.time();       //File Name for xls

//connect to db

$Connect = @mysql_connect($DB_Server, $DB_Username, $DB_Password)
    or die("Couldn't connect to MySQL:<br>" . mysql_error() . "<br>" . mysql_errno());
//select database
$Db = @mysql_select_db($DB_DBName, $Connect)
    or die("Couldn't select database:<br>" . mysql_error(). "<br>" . mysql_errno());

// Make Query with required field in xls ,dont include fields not required in xls

$sql ='  Select  field1, field2, field4, field6 from tablename' ;

//execute query
$result = @mysql_query($sql , $Connect)
    or die("Couldn't execute query:<br>" . mysql_error(). "<br>" . mysql_errno());
$file_ending = "xls";


//header info for browser
header("Content-Type: application/xls");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename.xls");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");

/*******Start of Formatting for Excel*******/
//define separator (defines columns in excel & tabs in word)
$sep = "\t"; //tabbed character


//start of printing column names as names of MySQL fields
for ($i = 0; $i < mysql_num_fields($result); $i++) {
echo ucfirst(mysql_field_name($result,$i)) . "\t";
}
print("\n");
//end of printing column names


//start while loop to fetch data
  
  while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
    {
        $schema_insert = "";
        for($j=0; $j<mysql_num_fields($result);$j++)
        {
           
if(!isset($row[$j])){
                            $schema_insert .= "NULL".$sep;
}else{
   $schema_insert .= "$row[$j]".$sep;
}
        }
        $schema_insert = str_replace($sep."$", "", $schema_insert);
  $schema_insert = preg_replace("/\r\n|\n\r|\n|\r/", " ", $schema_insert);
        $schema_insert .= "\t";
       print(trim($schema_insert));
       print "\n";
    }

Thanks

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