mysql data to excel

[dugen]

I have a script that extracts data from a mysql database to an excel sheet. I was wondering how do I get the fields from the table to show up as the column names in the excel spreadsheet?.

<?php
//Count the number of fields in the database

$select = "SELECT * FROM form_data";
$export = mysql_query($select);
$fields = mysql_num_fields($export);


//start a loop to extract all the field names from the db

for ($i = 0; $i < $fields; $i++) {
$header .= mysql_field_name($export, $i) . "\t";
}


//extracting all the data

while($row = mysql_fetch_row($export)) {
$line = '';
foreach($row as $value) {
if ((!isset($value)) OR ($value == "")) {
$value = "\t";
} else {
$value = str_replace('"', '""', $value);
$value = '"' . $value . '"' . "\t";
}
$line .= $value;
}
$data .= trim($line)."\n";
}
$data = str_replace("r","",$data);


//Check the database for data

if ($data == "") {
$data = "\n(0) Records Found!n";
}


//prompts user to save the spread sheet

header("Content-type: application/x-msdownload");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=extraction.xls");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");
print "$headern$data";
?>

 

[jpadie]

two methods

method 1

$fields = mysql_query("Show fields from form_data");
$fieldnames ="";
while ($field_data = mysql_fetch_assoc($fields)):
  $fieldnames .= $field_data['Field'] ."\t";
endwhile;
$fieldnames = rtrim($fieldnames, "\t") . "\r\n";

or
change the mysql_fetch_row to mysql_fetch_assoc and extract the fieldnames from the array keys.