Question

Im just getting started with PHP, and I need to export a table from my sqlite database to a CSV or ideally XLS. I have found an example using mysql, but i cant convert it to work with sqlite.

Here is what i have so far:

<?php
$db     = new PDO('sqlite:../ccm.sqlite');
$query  = $db->query('SELECT * FROM Emails');
$export = sqlite_query ($query);
$fields = sqlite_num_fields ( $export );

for ( $i = 0; $i < $fields; $i++ ){
    $header .= sqlite_field_name( $export , $i ) . "\t";
}

while( $row = sqlite_fetch_row( $export ) ){
//sqlite_fetch_row doesnt actually exist...
    $line = '';
    foreach( $row as $value ){                                            
        if ( ( !isset( $value ) ) || ( $value == "" ) ){
            $value = "\t";
        }else{
            $value = str_replace( '"' , '""' , $value );
            $value = '"' . $value . '"' . "\t";
        }
        $line .= $value;
    }
    $data .= trim( $line ) . "\n";
}
$data = str_replace( "\r" , "" , $data );

if ( $data == "" ){
    $data = "\n(0) Records Found!\n";                        
}

header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=emails.xls");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");
print "$header\n$data";
?>

Can anyone help me out with this?
or if there is a simpler way that would be great.
Cheers

Answer 1

You are mixing PDO methods with sqlite_* functions; try using one or the other:

$db = new PDO("sqlite:../ccm.sqlite");
$query = $db->query("select * from emails");
$first_row = true;
while ($row = $query->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC))
{
  if ($first_row)
  {
    // I'm not sure how to get the field names using a PDO method but
    // we can use the first row's (or any row's) key values as these
    // are the field names.
    $first_row = false;
    $number_of_fields = count($row);
    $field_names = array_keys($row);
    $first_field_name = $field_names[0];
  }
  // do stuff here with the row
  print_r($row);
}

or

$db = sqlite_open("../cmm.sqlite");
$query = sqlite_query($db, "select * from emails");
$number_of_fields = sqlite_num_fields($query);
$first_field_name = sqlite_field_name($query, 0);
while ($row = sqlite_fetch_array($query))
{
    // do stuff here with the row.
    print_r($row);
}

I’m not 100% sure but I think PDO works with sqlite3 databases and sqlite_* functions works with sqlite2 databases.