Question

I am trying to generate a CSV file containing the name and email address from an form in an HTML file and using the PHP fputcsv function. But I am unable to pass the value of variables to the array and it is returning error message.

My PHP file:

<?php 
$name = $_GET["name"];
$email = $_GET["email"];

$list = array
(
'$name', '$email',
);

$file = fopen("list.csv","w");

foreach ($list as $line)
  {
  fputcsv($file,split(',',$line));
  }

fclose($file);
?>

The error message:

Deprecated: Function split() is deprecated in F:\xampp\htdocs\test.php on line 22

Deprecated: Function split() is deprecated in F:\xampp\htdocs\test.php on line 22

My line 22 contains:

fputcsv($file,split(',',$line));

I don’t get the above error if I just use plain text in array. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

single quotes don’t replace your variables with their values in strings.

you can either use double quotes

$list = array
(
"$name", "$email",
);

and since these strings only contain your variables, just skip the quotes all together

$list = array
(
$name, $email,
);

for further documentation, see the docs