converting PHP records into Excel file..

[boraman]

I have preview page that shows simple details of properties. you can see address, price etc.. There is a sort option on this page where you for example select records 1,3,12,10 and click a button and all of records that are not selected disappear. If you click details link in depth details are listed.

I need to find a way to convert these records from the PHP DB to an excel file.

I found a script that will convert the entire table to a excel file but I need to find a method that will only convert certain records (the ones that are selected)

here is that code, I figure it might be a good place to start:

<?php
//Written by Dan Zarrella. Some additional tweaks provided by JP Honeywell
//pear excel package has support for fonts and formulas etc.. more complicated
//this is good for quick table dumps (deliverables)

include('DB_connection.php');
$result = mysql_query('select * from excel_test', $linkID);
$count = mysql_num_fields($result);

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

while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)){
  $line = '';
  foreach($row as $value){
    if(!isset($value) || $value == ""){
      $value = "\t";
    }else{
# important to escape any quotes to preserve them in the data.
      $value = str_replace('"', '""', $value);
# needed to encapsulate data in quotes because some data might be multi line.
# the good news is that numbers remain numbers in Excel even though quoted.
      $value = '"' . $value . '"' . "\t";
    }
    $line .= $value;
  }
  $data .= trim($line)."\n";
}
# this line is needed because returns embedded in the data have "\r"
# and this looks like a "box character" in Excel
  $data = str_replace("\r", "", $data);


# Nice to let someone know that the search came up empty.
# Otherwise only the column name headers will be output to Excel.
if ($data == "") {
  $data = "\nno matching records found\n";
}

# This line will stream the file to the user rather than spray it across the screen
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");

# replace excelfile.xls with whatever you want the filename to default to
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=excelfile.xls");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");

echo $header."\n".$data;
?> 

any ideas? 😕

[kburger]

Edit: oops - misread your post. Change your query to something like this:

$result = mysql_query('select * from excel_test WHERE uniquerecordidentifier IN (1,3,12,10)', $linkID);