Question

Is it possible to export a PHP MySQL Excel sheet to a specified path such as USB Flash Drive.
Its because I’m using php as Point of Sale and all What i want now is once you click on a Button- it will collects records from MySQL database and exports it as excel or csv file to a USB Flash Drive.

I’ve tried to Google it out, but I can’t seem to find anything.

Thank You.

Answer 1

You need to write the file. To write to usb drive you just need to specify correct file path. If you’re on *nix it would be like /media/USB/ on linux or /Volumes/USB/ on Mac. For Windows it would be like F:/.

so rough example is like

$a = array('1','2','3'); //This is imaginable row from MySQL
$f = fopen('F:/mycsv.csv', 'w');
fputcsv($f, $a);
fclose($f);

Manual for fputcsv is here.

If needed, you can ask user for a file path in any way supported by your application.