Question

I’m using odbc_exec to execute sql. It returns the results fine, but I would like to get an array of the sql field names. I have them in the SQL, obviously, but I need a programmatic way to quickly return them from a query

$sql = "SELECT  mv_value, mv_entered_by, mv_student_id, mc_module_id, mc_type
                FROM MarkbookValue t1
                RIGHT JOIN MarkbookColumn t2 ON t1.mv_column_id = t2.mc_id
            WHERE DateDiff(minute, mc_date_entered, '" . $date . "') = 0
                AND mc_entered_by = '" . $name . "' ";

Running it through:

     $result = odbc_exec(CONN, $sql);

I’d like to get an array listing:

     mv_value, mv_entered_by, mv_student_id, mc_module_id, mc_type

so I can then output a CSV with headings

Answer 1

This seems like a hack, is there a more elegant solution?

$result = odbc_exec($server, $sql);

$fp = fopen($name, 'w');

while ($export = odbc_fetch_array($result)) {
    if (!isset($headings))
    {
        $headings = array_keys($export);
        fputcsv($fp, $headings, ',', '"');
    }
    fputcsv($fp, $export, ',', '"');
}
fclose($fp);