For the first echo, between the quotes add html tablerow

second is dual quotes inside else statement. Set html for tabledata open and close so that row is nested inside them.

Third quote is end tablerow

Fourth quote outside while loop is end table.

Sorry for the spam posts, didnt know my html would be hidden and wanted to share what I had figured out with others that find this post as it ranked high in google for the search term used “export mysql to excel using php”.

Cheers,

Batty13

while (…)
{
$output ….
echo quotequote;
for (…)
{
if(…)
$output ….
else
echo quote quote.$row[$j].quotequote;
}
echo quotequote;
$output =preg……
print(….)
}
echo quotequote;

vlatko, could you please delete that post then? it’s wrong without the html : (

I then used that excel formatting code and added that into the correct fields or parts of the php code you’ve written in the great tutorial / example.

hope you dont mind I add here for others that find yours!
Will just put the major part, the while/for loop.

NOTE: for “\t” I used a var instead
$sep = “\t”;

//my while/for loop
while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
{
//set_time_limit(60); //
$output = ”;
echo “”;
for($j=0; $j < mysql_num_fields($result); $j++)
{
if(!isset($row[$j]))
$output .= “NULL”.$sep;
else
//$output .= “$row[$j]“.$sep;
echo “”.$row[$j].”";
}
echo “”;
$output = preg_replace(“/\r\n|\n\r|\n|\r/”, ‘ ‘, $output);
print(trim($output)).”\t\n”;
}
echo ”;

Ive tried a few things and different results but nothing correct where it formats the spreadsheet like a bgcolor

Im guessing it needs to be inside the loops. Maybe a small sample of how to do for looop where you show column names of mysql fields?

thanks in advance!

Thanks for the awesome script!
It worked so well and was very easy to understand.

By the way, do you know if there is a way to have excel format the data that is dumped?
Thinks like row height, or background color? This is the next thing I need to figure out.