Here is a tutorial on how to export something from your database to an excel file using PHP. It is useful when you want to download a report.
Basically, it displays an HTML table but instead of showing it in the browser, we have set the header to treat the output as an excel file.
$dbhost = 'localhost'; $dbuser = 'root'; $dbpass = 'xxx'; $conn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass) or die ('Error connecting to mysql'); $dbname = 'employee'; mysql_select_db($dbname); $query = 'SELECT * FROM employee_table'; $result = mysql_query($query); header("Pragma: public"); header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate"); header("Cache-Control: pre-check=0, post-check=0, max-age=0"); header("Pragma: no-cache"); header("Expires: 0"); header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: none"); header("Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel;"); header("Content-type: application/x-msexcel"); header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=my_excel_file.xls"); echo ' <table border="1">'; echo ' <tbody> <tr>'; echo ' <td><strong>Firt Name</strong></td> '; echo ' <td><strong>Last Name</strong></td> '; echo ' <td><strong>Username</strong></td> '; echo ' <td><strong>Date Hired</strong></td> '; echo ' <td><strong>Marital Status</strong></td> '; while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) { echo '</tr> <tr>'; echo ' <td>'.$row['firstname'].'</td> '; echo ' <td>'.$row['lastname'].'</td> '; echo ' <td>'.$row['username'].'</td> '; echo ' <td>'.$row['datehired'].'</td> '; echo ' <td>'.$row['maritalstatus'].'</td> '; echo '</tr> '; } echo '</tbody></table> '; |