How do I download data from the database and convert it to a csv file
What Database? If you're talking about MySQL, you can either use the admin tool and dump the content of a table or more into a text file, or you can use phpmyadmin to export to a file with delimiters.
Check the docu for "dump" in www.mysql.com: http://www.mysql.com/doc/m/y/mysqldump.html
If you want to use phpmyadmin go to: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin
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