Question

I need to save data array to CSV file. The problem is the following: When I open CSV file, I see that 0 row of an array is saved at the same row as a header. Also the last column of a header contains 0, i.e. ‘www0’. How to avoid this?

        header("Content-type: text/csv");
        header("Pragma: no-cache");
        saveCSV($solutionCSV);

function saveCSV($data) {
    $outstream = fopen("schedule.csv", "a");

    $headers = 'xxx, yyy, zzz, www';
    fwrite($outstream,$headers);

    function __outputCSV(&$vals, $key, $filehandler) {
        fputcsv($filehandler, $vals);
    }
    array_walk($data, "__outputCSV", $outstream);
    fclose($outstream);
}

Answer 1

You need a newline after the headers. Note the change from single- to double-quotes to enable escaping.

$headers = "xxx, yyy, zzz, www\n";

If this trips up Windows, use \r\n:

$headers = "xxx, yyy, zzz, www\r\n";

Alternatively, you can rely on fputcsv to write the headers, too. This is probably the safest method as it will result in a consistent format.

$headers = array('xxx', 'yyy', 'zzz', 'www');
fputcsv($outstream, $headers);