Generating excel sheet from MySql database using PHP - php

Question

I'm new to PHP. I'm using the following code to generate an excel sheet from Mysql database using PHP.
<?php
include("../Connection/Connection.php");
$db_con=new Connection();
$db_con->get_connection(); //Opens a database connection. This function is contained in the Connection.php which is included above.
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM country");
if (!$result) die('Couldn\'t fetch records');
$num_fields = mysql_num_fields($result);
$headers = array();
for ($i = 0; $i < $num_fields; $i++)
{
$headers[] = mysql_field_name($result , $i);
}
$fp = fopen('php://output', 'w');
if ($fp && $result)
{
header('Content-Type: text/csv');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="export.csv"');
header('Pragma: no-cache');
header('Expires: 0');
fputcsv($fp, $headers);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
fputcsv($fp, array_values($row));
}
die;
}
?>
The above code is working and it generates the specified file export.csv but the problem is that it generates each column from MySql in this file twice. In other words, each column is duplicated twice (headers displayed are not duplicated though). What is wrong with this code? What changes should be made so that it displays each column exactly once?

Answer 1

Use mysql_fetch_row instead.
mysql_fetch_array fetches an array with BOTH string indexes and numeric indexes, so each value is fetched twice. Your code would work with either mysql_fetch_assoc or mysql_fetch_row.