Comments on: PHP + MySQL = CSV

By: Adam Patterson

Adam Patterson — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:26:35 +0000

Good point, Updated post to reflect that advise. You never know what people would put for an address :)

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:11:42 +0000

You need to escape double quotes in the values. In your instance you probably know your address book entries don’t contain any double quotes, but if an entr did contain a double quote it will break your CSV export.

str_replace(‘”‘, ‘”"‘, $value) will do it.

By: J Lane

J Lane — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:47:20 +0000

I’m not a big PHP guy, but as far as I remember (from what I do know), you can call any sort of command line operation (shell scripts, external binaries, whatever).

http://ca3.php.net/shell_exec

It probably doesn’t really make a big difference, unless you’re working with a huge data set, then you might get better performance out of the mysqldump route.

By: Adam Patterson

Adam Patterson — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:33:08 +0000

Can that be done from a php script? Never tried, but i was Just using an example to export responses or data.
Not a backup.

By: J Lane

J Lane — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:23:37 +0000

Why not just use mysqldump?

mysqldump -u [username] -p -t -T/path/to/directory [database] –fields-enclosed-by=\; –fields-terminated-by=,