Heavy-duty fputcsv()

timstring

I have a table with up to 35 columns and up to 70 rows. My boss wants me to dump my table into an Exsmell file. Why? I don't know. Anywhoo, everything that displays on the screen needs to be copied to a .cvs file for import into Excel. Is there a way to dump the data into a .csv file via fputcsv() while the script is unfolding, or do I need to have a bunch of code at the end to write to the file?

NogDog

fputcsv() only outputs one line at a time, so it should work fine in an incremental approach.

$fh = fopen($csvFilePathName, 'w');
while(something_or_other)
{
    // get desired for data for one row into 1-D array $data, then...
    fputcsv($fh, $data);
}
fclose($fh)

timstring

Took a little doing, but I figured out how to get each line into my file, BUT......

I need to take a step back. I can't get the fopen() to create my file.

$FileName = $System . ' ' . $EndMO . '.csv';
echo $FileName;
$fp = fopen($FileName, "w")
or die( 'yep, you screwed up');

$FileName is right. What am i lacking?

bradgrafelman

timstring;11023579 wrote:
What am i lacking?

An error message, for starters. Do you have error_reporting set to E_ALL and display_errors (or log_errors) set to On?

timstring

I now have

display_errors = 1
error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED
log_errors = On

I am getting a monster error message:

Warning: fopen(Enid Jan-2012.csv): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /Library/WebServer/Documents/DispatchReports/callstodispatch/MonthlyReport.php on line 181

So, I took a sledgehammer and changed the permissions, and the file was created.

The big question is how am I supposed to get my data into an array so that 'fputcsv();' will write to the file? Here's what I'm dealing with:

echo '<table style = "margin:auto; border:2px solid blue; border-collapse:collapse">';
	echo '<tr  style="background-color:#73B0FF">';
		echo '<th> Tech<br>Number:</th>';
		echo '<th style="width:150px"> Name:</th>';
		echo '<th />';


			for ($counter=0; $counter<$NumMonth; $counter++)
				{
					echo '<th>'  . $W["$counter"] . '<br>' . $D["$counter"] . '</th>';
				}


	echo '<th>Calls</th>';
	echo '<th>Work<br />Orders</th>';

echo "</tr>";

Where do I go from here? Each element of the array would be between the <th> fields, and the line would terminate on the </tr>. But how would I get to an array from here?

tim

Weedpacket

[font=monospace]$W[/font] is already an array. Isn't that what you want? If not, how does it relate? How does building an HTML table from it relate to saving a CSV file?