Export SQL table to CSV format with PHP - php

Question

I Try this solution to export from my database to CSV and it work but all Data are exported in one colones. I would like that compose me in The CSV like in the table data base. What is the problem in this code ?
<?php
// Database Connection
$host="localhost";
$uname="root";
$pass="";
$database = "a2zwebhelp";
$connection=mysql_connect($host,$uname,$pass);
echo mysql_error();
//or die("Database Connection Failed");
$selectdb=mysql_select_db($database) or
die("Database could not be selected");
$result=mysql_select_db($database)
or die("database cannot be selected <br>");
// Fetch Record from Database
$output = "";
$table = ""; // Enter Your Table Name
$sql = mysql_query("select * from $table");
$columns_total = mysql_num_fields($sql);
// Get The Field Name
for ($i = 0; $i < $columns_total; $i++) {
$heading = mysql_field_name($sql, $i);
$output .= '"'.$heading.'",';
}
$output .="\n";
// Get Records from the table
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql)) {
for ($i = 0; $i < $columns_total; $i++) {
$output .='"'.$row["$i"].'",';
}
$output .="\n";
}
// Download the file
$filename = "myFile.csv";
header('Content-type: application/csv');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.$filename);
echo $output;
exit;
?>

Answer 1

If you use "\n" as a line separator and open that file in i.e. notepad.exe, this will not be properly recognized as "carriage return linefeed" and the entire file seems to be just "one big line" - but actually it isn't!
You may terminate lines with "\r\n" to prevent this effect.
In order to have this automatically recognized by i.e. Excel, use ; as field separator instead of ,.