generate an Excel file using PHP - php

Question

I'm new with PHP, I'm developping a WEB application that display a table with informations from an SQL server DATA BASE, the problem that I want to add a button to generate an EXCEL file that contains the table displayed? Is that possible??
#Ranjit this is the PHP code that displays the table and generate the excel file
edit 1
<?php
$ch="";
if(isset($_POST['historique']))
{
if ((!empty($_POST['Date_de_debut']))&& (!empty($_POST['Date_de_fin']))&&(!empty($_POST['Heure_de_debut']))&&(!empty($_POST['Heure_de_fin'])))
{
$ch= "(CONVERT(Datetime, '".$_POST['Date_de_debut']." ".$_POST['Heure_de_debut'].".000',120)) and (CONVERT(Datetime, '".$_POST['Date_de_fin']." ".$_POST['Heure_de_fin'].".000',120))";
?>
<table id="tab" border="1">
<tr>
<th><font color="red">Date</font></th>
<th><font color="red">Agent</font></th>
<th><font color="red">numéro</font></th>
</tr>
<?php
$search = " // my query
where operationDate between" .$ch;
$stmt = mssql_query($search);
while ($data = mssql_fetch_assoc($stmt))
{
?>
<tr>
<td><?php echo utf8_encode ($data['operationDate']);?></td>
<td><?php echo utf8_encode ($data['fullName']);?></td>
<td><?php echo utf8_encode ($data['number']);?></td>
</tr>
<?php
} }
?>
</table>
<?php
}
$output ='';
if(isset($_POST['excel']))
{
if ((!empty($_POST['Date_de_debut']))&& (!empty($_POST['Date_de_fin']))&&(!empty($_POST['Heure_de_debut']))&&(!empty($_POST['Heure_de_fin'])))
{
$rq = "// my query
where operationDate between" ."(CONVERT(Datetime, '".$_POST['Date_de_debut']." ".$_POST['Heure_de_debut'].".000',120)) and (CONVERT(Datetime, '".$_POST['Date_de_fin']." ".$_POST['Heure_de_fin'].".000',120))";
$res = mssql_query($rq);
if(mssql_num_rows($res)>0)
{
$output.='<table border=1>
<tr>
<th>Date</th>
<th>Depanneur</th>
<th>numéro</th>
</tr>
';
while ($row=mssql_fetch_array($res))
{
$output .='
<tr>
<td>'.$row["operationDate"].'</td>
<td>'.$row["fullName"].'</td>
<td>'.$row["number"].'</td>
</tr>';
}
$output .='</table>';
header("Content-Type: application/xls;charset=UTF-8");
header("Content-Disposition: attachement; filename=file.xls");
echo $output;
//mssql_close($conn);
}}}
?>

Answer 1

You'll have to select the data manually then insert them into the excel sheet, there's php library called PHPEXCEL you can use it.
See this
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/export-to-excel-in-php-with-my-sql/

Answer 2

There are some nice packages out there to generate excel files such as
Box Spout and PHP Spreadsheet.
The documentation of both packages is very clear any you will be generating excel files within minutes of browsing through documentation.

Answer 3

Yes,
It is possible. You can follow this
1) Connect to database:
2) Define a filename of excel
//define separator (defines columns in excel & tabs in word)
$sep = "\t"; //tabbed character
$fp = fopen('database.xls', "w");
$schema_insert = "";
$schema_insert_rows = "";
//start of printing column names as names of MySQL fields
Sources - http://www.anillabs.com/2010/03/how-to-create-excel-file-with-mysql-data-using-php-code/