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Howdy All,
I've PHP / Apache / MySQL running on a Linux machine where a GUI allows an
administrator to track changes made to computers on our intranet. I've
been asked to add an 'history' button so that all changes made to one or
Thanks for responding, Torsten. If I'm understanding your suggestion, then
what happens where the data from the dB already has a ; (semi-colon) in
it? Wouldn't this corrupt the import into excel?
dave
My question is whether there might be a more direct way to get the dB
data
into excel on
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Thanks for responding, Torsten. If I'm understanding your suggestion, then
what happens where the data from the dB already has a ; (semi-colon) in
it? Wouldn't this corrupt the import into excel?
This might cause a problem because
really doing
But that might be in option...
Cheers!!
Dan
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Thanks for responding, Torsten. If I'm understanding your suggestion, then
what happens where the data from the dB already has a ; (semi-colon) in
it? Wouldn't this corrupt the import into excel?
Please take a look at PEAR's
There definitely are colons, and there is a 'comments' field and
semi-colons may appear there. However I think I will include a note in the
help file for the admin to avoid using semi-colons in this field. Seems
the best solution. And you are right: A .csv is seen as an excel file, so
opening
An easy way to do it (work around) is to dump it as csv or html. If your
form can output an html table to the browser to show results then all you
need is to include a short instruction on the html form that has all results
in html table that would say something like Save with your browser's
Thanks, Christian, and all who responded. I think this is almost exactly
as it will work. The problem with using some kind of MySQL frontend is
that this would involve some knowledge of dB's and SQL (can't be certain
of this), and that it would be additional steps. For example, the GUI
already
