HTML to CSV PHP - php

Question

I've been trying to export MySQL fields to CSV and can get all them exporting correctly except the filed which contains HTML.
My MySQL table is made up as follows:
Name: Address: Profile:
Name is simply text as with address, but profile is HTML
My array is:
$array = array ( array ( "Name" => "$name", "Address" => "$address", "Profile" => $profile )
);
Made using:
$name = $info['name'];
$address = $info['address'];
$profile = $info['profile'];
I have a "Tab" \t delimiter and every exports into the CSV correctly bar the HTML which I would like to keep as pure HTML but in one Excel field, at the moment is splits across multi rows and fields.
CSV code is as follows:
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");
$titleArray = array_keys($array[0]);
$delimiter = "\t";
$filename="profiles.xls";
foreach ($array as $subArrayKey => $subArray) {
$dataRowString = implode($delimiter, $subArray);
print $dataRowString . "\r\n";
}
Any help or advise would be highly welcomed.

Answer 1

You need to escape the field values. You can use fputcsv:
$stdout = fopen('php://stdout', 'w');
fputcsv($stdout, $subArray, "\t");
$filename="profiles.xls";
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");
$titleArray = array_keys($array[0]);
$delimiter = "\t";
$stdout = fopen('php://stdout', 'w');
foreach ($array as $subArrayKey => $subArray) {
fputcsv($stdout, $subArray, $delimiter);
}