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Re: Send .csv file to browser [message #170026 is a reply to message #170021] Wed, 06 October 2010 03:50 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Adam Harvey is currently offline  Adam Harvey
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On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 14:06:45 -0400, sheldonlg wrote:
> On 10/5/2010 12:52 PM, Derek Turner wrote:
>> When TB exports a csv it doesn't quote text fields so presumably it
>> doesn't need them quoted to import them:
>
> What if I have in there that my nickname is Shelly ("sheldonlg")? How
> does the db have the " in the table? How is that retrieved? How does
> that appear when written to the browser? What if single quotes are used
> as in O'Reilly? That is what Jerry is talking about. You always have
> to be concerned with things like this.

Indeed, which is why I'd go with the built-in fputcsv() function which
should do sensible things with quoting; ie something like this:


// fputcsv() can only write to a file/stream handle, so let's open one up.
$fp = fopen('php://temp', 'r+');

// Loop over the data using whatever the appropriate database function is.
// We'll assume $rs is a MySQL result resource, but it doesn't really
// matter where it comes from.
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($rs)) {
fputcsv($fp, $rec);
}

// Rewind the stream handle and actually output the CSV data.
// No temporary file required!
header('Content-Type: text/csv');
rewind($fp);
fpassthru($fp);
fclose($fp);


Adam
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