Question

I have data in a MySQL database. I am sending the user a URL to get their data out as a CSV file.

I have the e-mailing of the link, MySQL query, etc. covered.

How can I, when they click the link, have a pop-up to download a CVS with the record from MySQL?

I have all the information to get the record already. I just don’t see how to have PHP create the CSV file and let them download a file with a .csv extension.

Answer 1

Try:

header('Content-type: text/csv'); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=file.csv'); header('Pragma: no-cache'); header('Expires: 0');  echo 'record1,record2,record3\n'; die; 

etc

Edit: Here’s a snippet of code I use to optionally encode CSV fields:

function maybeEncodeCSVField($string) {     if(strpos($string, ',') !== false || strpos($string, ''') !== false || strpos($string, '\n') !== false) {         $string = ''' . str_replace(''', '''', $string) . ''';     }     return $string; }