convert $_POST values to CSV - php

Question

Updated Situation:
I have managed to create a registration form that outputs the data to a new CSV file for use into a separate database. However the code that sends the attachment doesn't work, but the system stores the file into a separate folder (I must stress this is while I am testing).
My question is, can I both create the CSV file and send it via email? If so, what do I need to do?
I am also aware that there are security risks: One suggestion has been to store the CSV files outside to root directory. is this foolproof and if not, could anyone make any recommendations?
My code is:
<?php
$_POST['password'] = md5($_POST['password']);
$headers=array_keys($_POST);
$file = "csv/" . $_POST['username'].date('Ymdhis').".csv"; //filename
$file = fopen($file, 'a');
fputcsv($file, $headers);
fputcsv($file, $_POST);
fclose($file);
require_once('email/PHPMailerAutoload.php');
$m = new PHPMailer;
$m->isSMTP();
$m->SMTPAuth = true;
$m->SMTPDebug = 0;
$m->Host = 'mymail.com';
$m->Username = 'me#mymail.com';
$m->Password = 'mypass';
$m->SMTPSecure = 'SSL';
$m->Port = 26;
$m->From = 'me#mymail.com';
$m->FromName = 'My name';
$m->addReplyTo('me#mymail.com', 'Reply Address');
$m->AddAddress('me#mymail.com', 'My name');
$m->isHTML(true);
$m->addAttachment('csv/data.csv', 'data.csv');
$m->Subject = 'New feed ';
$m->Body = '<p>This is an email just sent from our website</p><p><strong>Please import into your database.</strong></p>';
$m->AltBody = 'This is the body. Please import into the database';
if($m->send()) {
echo '<h1>Thank you</h1> <p>We have received your Registration and will send you confirmation details shortly.</p>';
} else {
echo $m->ErrorInfo;
}
I also have a checkbox field that needs to be written with the commas separating the values, for example 1,2,3. How can I write this?
Any assistance/advice will as always be gratefully received.
Many thanks in advance.

Answer 1

$_POST['id']="101"; //example data
$_POST['username']="kraysak"; //example data
$_POST['password']="grumpycat"; //example data
$_POST['usergroup']="admin"; //example data
$_POST['lastaccess']="14-10-2014 00:01"; //example data,
$_POST['password'] = md5($_POST['password']);
$headers=array_keys($_POST);
$file = $_POST['username'].date('Ymdhis').".csv"; //filename
$file = fopen($file, 'a');
fputcsv($file, $headers ); //write headers (key of the $_POST array (id,username,password,etc)
fputcsv($file, $_POST );
fclose($file);
this create a file named kraysak20141014010253.csv with the next information:
id,username,password,usergroup,lastaccess
101,kraysak,5557981401e83c1963412f19c7487965,amdin,"14-10-2014 00:01"
is hard for me to explain, (my english isn't good enought) but fputcsv funtion write the content of an array in the file, and $_POST is an array... so, you dont need to create new variables, you only need to use md5() function in one variable.

Answer 2

fputcsv consists of two parameters; location and content. So;
fputcsv(location, content);
or
$fileNameVariable = 'blah';
$fileName = $fileNameVariable . date('Ymdhis') . '.csv';
$fp = fopen('/exampleDirectoryName/' . $fileName, 'w');
$headers = array ('info1', 'info2', 'info3');
fputcsv($fp, $headers);
You can adapt this exmaple for your situation pretty easily.

Answer 3

Try:
$csvname=md5(rand());
$fp = fopen("csv/$csvname.csv", "w");
$savearray = [ $name, $email, $password, $usergroup, $lastsid, $fname, $lname, $lastaccess, $company, $phone, $addone, $addtwo, $city, $stateprov, $country, $postalcode, $rescom, $addbook, $subscriptions, $affilid, $affilcommpct, $affilsalestodate, $affilcommearned, $affilcommowed, $affilcommpaid, $whlsalepct, $show_currency, $loyaltypoints ];
fputcsv($fp, $savearray);
fclose($fp);
Use array() on $savearray instead of [] for older php versions.