Format text to fit in columns in Excel - php

Question

I have this block of text in an array:
"Stefan Olsson"
"Kungsvägen"
"Skolgatan"
xxxx-xx-xx
0735xxxxxx,
"Pär Davidsson"
"Skolgatan"
"Myntvägen"
xxxx-xx-xx
0709xxxxxx,
I parse this type of content to an CSV-file, for later usage in Excel. However, I want to fromat this text to fit in different columns in excell. So, when I open the CSV-file in Execel, I want the name to be in one column, the address in the column besides etcetc. How can I accomplish this? Should I use PHPExcel? Or could it be done with plain old PHP?
Here is my PHP-code
$gatunamn = $_POST['gata'];
$ort = $_POST['omrade'];
$csv_data = array();
$newSpider->fetchPage($gatunamn, $ort, $offset=0);
$obj = json_decode($newSpider->html);
echo "<div id='rightcontent'><table id='one-column-emphasis'>";
echo "<th><input type='checkbox' name='csv_all' id='csv_all'></th><th>Namn</th><th>Adress</th><th>Adress2</th><th>Adress3</th><th>Personnummer</th><th>Telefonnummer</th><th>Telefonnummer2</th>";
$antal_sidor = round($obj->search->wp->totalHits / $obj->search->wp->pageSize);
echo "<td></td>";
foreach($obj->search->wp->features as $fish) //Loopar ut 50st (pageSize)
{
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td><input type='checkbox' value='csv' class='csv'></td>";
echo "<td>" . $fish->name . "</td>";
$csv_data[] .= utf8_decode($fish->name);
foreach($fish->addresses as $ad)
{
echo "<td>" . $ad->label . " " . $ad->postcode . " " . $ad->area . "</td>";
$csv_data[] .= utf8_decode($ad->label . " " . $ad->postcode . " " . $ad->area);
}
if(!empty($fish->dateOfBirth))
{
$convert_date = substr($fish->dateOfBirth, 0, -3); //Gör om datum från timestamp
echo "<td>" . date("Y-m-d", $convert_date) . "</td>";
$convert_datee = date("Y-m-d", $convert_date);
$csv_data[] .= $convert_datee;
}
if(!empty($fish->phoneNumbers))
{
foreach($fish->phoneNumbers as $ph)
{
echo "<td>" . $ph . "</td>";
$csv_data[] .= $ph . ",";
}
}
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";
$j = 0;
for($i = 1; $i <= $antal_sidor; $i++)
{
echo "<a href='curl2.php?gatunamn=$gatunamn&ort=$ort&offset=$j'>" . $i . "</a> ";
$j += 100;
}
echo "</div>";
echo "<div id='debug'><pre>";
var_dump($csv_data);
echo "</pre></div>";
}
if(isset($_POST['export']))
{
$fp = fopen("eniroo.csv","w");
foreach(explode(",", implode("\n",$csv_data)) as $rad) {
fputcsv($fp, array(implode(',', str_getcsv($rad, "\n"))));
}
echo "<div id='csv_info'>";
echo "<a href='eniro.csv'>Hämta CSV-fil</a>";
echo "</div>";
}

Answer 1

// Restructure the original array into rows
$myDataArray = array_chunk($myDataArray, 5);
// Then write to CSV
$fp = fopen('file.csv', 'w');
foreach($myDataArray as $dataRow) {
fputcsv($fh, $dataRow);
}
fclose($fh)