Question

My code generates a txt file using PHP’s fputcsv function.

For the delimiter, I am trying to use ‘|’

$query = mysql_query("SELECT email, emailSource FROM session WHERE is_complete='1' ORDER by sessionid ASC")

$filename= 'here.txt';

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


fputcsv($fp, array('Email address', 'Email Source'));

if(mysql_numrows($query) > 0) {

    while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($query, MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
            fputcsv($fp, array_values($row));
    }
}


fclose($fp);
$contents = file_get_contents($filename);
$contents = str_replace(",", "|", $contents);
file_put_contents($filename, $contents);

The result I get is all on one line instead of showing the values on a seperate line and I also have “” around the headers.

"Email address"|"Email Source"|[e-mail]|hi|

instead of this:

Email address|Email Source|

[e-mail]|hi|

Please can someone tell me what I am doing wrong. Is it because I am using fputcsv and saving to a txt file?

Answer 1

Get rid of the str_replace / file_get_contents/ file_put_contents block. Instead of fputcsv($fp, array('...')), use fputcsv($fp, array('...'), '|');