On 19 April 2010 17:40, Andrew Ballard <aball...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Peter Lind <peter.e.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 19 April 2010 17:00, Andrew Ballard <aball...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Manolis Vlachakis
>>>> 1. $save=split("[|;]",$listOfItems);
>>>>
>>>> and what i want i s after making some changes to the attributes on the
>>>> array
>>>> above to export them on an csv or excel format
>>>> but directly as a message to the browser ..
>>>> i dont want it to be saved on the server ...
>>>>
>>> Often when outputting csv, I usually do something like this:
>>>
>>> <?php
>>>
>>> $fp = fopen('php://output', 'w') or die('Could not open stream');
>>>
>>> foreach ($data as $row) {
>>> // Assumes that $row will be an array.
>>> // Manipulate the data in $row if necessary.
>>> fputcsv($fp, $row);
>>> }
>>>
>>> ?>
>>
>> An interesting idea. I'd do:
>>
>> echo implode(',', $row);
>>
>
> If it's very simple data that works, but it doesn't allow for the
> optional enclosure characters that fputcsv() uses in cases where a
> data element includes the column and/or row delimiter characters. I
> had originally written something using an array_map callback that did
> the optional enclosures as needed and then used echo implode() as you
> suggest, but found the solution I posted was shorter and faster. YMMV
>
> Andrew
>
Yeah, was considering that point as well. I'd use the echo if the
array values are getting modified anyway. Otherwise your solution is
probably simpler.
Regards
Peter
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