On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 10:02, Diana Castillo wrote: > Hi, I want to export some fields on a regular basis from a table to a text > file, preferable to the users local computer. I tried writing to a file with > fopen but I get "permission denied" when I try to open it for writing. > What is the best solution? > Thanks, > Diana If you want to do it as a csv file the best way is select <fields> into outfile '<outfile path>' fields terminated by ',' from <table> <conditions>. this writes to a csv file. now being able to do things wtih that file depends if you are using a Unix clone you have to watch the permissions on the file it sounds like that is the problem . perhaps add yourself to the mysql group if the file has group permissions. the last is just a thought.
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