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Creating A .csv Document With PHP
By Ben Sinclair
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This is a very basic script for creating a .csv file in PHP and is easy to set up and display information.

The Script

OK, here's the whole script. I'll explain how it works after:


<?php
header ("Content-type: application/csv\nContent-Disposition: \"inline; filename=dates_of_year.csv\"");

echo "Day,Month,Year \n\n";
echo "1,6,2003\n";
echo "3,11,2003\n";
echo "19,2,2003\n";
?>



As you can see it is very basic. It will look something like this when you open the .csv file:

Day	Month	Year
1	6	2003
3	11	2003
19	2	2003

How It Works

Very simple. For every box(See above) you want to display information in, you need to add a comma(,):


Day,Month,Year


And for every "break", you need to add a forward slash and the letter n:


\n


Hope that helps you out in displaying data! You can aslo set it up to display MySQL results too!

Enjoy!

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