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Sajal
Sajal

Reputation: 1216

PHP Exporting UTF-8 Data into Excel from Mysql

I am using core php code to export data to excel. The following is my code:

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
mysql_connect("localhost","root","");
mysql_select_db("test");
//----------------------------------------
mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");
mysql_query("SET CHARACTER SET utf8");
mysql_query("SET COLLATION_CONNECTION = 'utf8_unicode_ci'");
//----------------------------------------
$filename = "excelwork.xls";
$exists = file_exists('excelwork.xls');
if($exists)
{
    unlink($filename);
}
$filename = "excelwork.xls";
$fp = fopen($filename, "wb");
$sql = "select * from test";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
$$insert = "";
$insert_rows = "";
for ($i = 1; $i < mysql_num_fields($result); $i++)
{
    $insert_rows .= mysql_field_name($result,$i) . "\t";
}
$insert_rows.="\n";
fwrite($fp, $insert_rows);
while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
{
    $insert = $row[1]. "\t" .$row[2]. "\t".$row[3]. "\t".$row[4]. "\t".$row[5];
    $insert .= "\n";               //       serialize($assoc)
    fwrite($fp, $insert);
}
if (!is_resource($fp))
{
         echo "cannot open excel file";
}
echo "success full export";
fclose($fp);

============ This is my Mysql Table ================

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `test` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `name` varchar(255) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_bin NOT NULL,
  `status` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '1',
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=6 ;

--
-- Dumping data for table `test`
--

INSERT INTO `test` (`id`, `name`, `status`) VALUES
(1, 'सजल', 1),
(2, 'सूर्या', 1),
(3, 'धनश्री', 1),
(4, 'मनीष', 1),
(5, 'राहुल', 1);

The Output excel file gives this output :

सजल
सूरà¥à¤¯à¤¾
धनशà¥à¤°à¥€
मनीष
राहà¥à¤²

But when i Export using Phpmyadmin into xls the output is correct: 

सजल
सूर्या
धनश्री
मनीष
राहुल

Please tell me what is wrong on my code. I have tried many things, searched many posts.
Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 6501

Answers (1)

Mark Baker
Mark Baker

Reputation: 212522

This question seems to be asked several times a day at the moment

  1. Use PHP's built-in fputcsv() function
  2. Write a UTF-8 BOM header to the csv file before you write any other data

  3. Consider using MySQL's own export

    SELECT *
    INTO OUTFILE '/path/to/file.csv' FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"' LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' FROM test;

EDIT

$fh = fopen('test2.csv', 'w+');
fwrite($fh, "\xEF\xBB\xBF");       // Write UTF-8 BOM
fwrite($fh, "sep=\t" . PHP_EOL);   // Hint for MS Excel
while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
    fputcsv($fh, $row, "\t");
}
fclose($fh);

Upvotes: 2

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