On 20-Jul-2001 Nelson Goforth wrote:
> Thanks to Steve and Jeff for your replies.
>
<snip>
>
> The new system will store the data in MySQL table(s) for retrieval
> not only of specific survey results, but (as I'm collecting industry
> type and demographic data as well) in more complex ways as well. I
> may actually STILL store the individual survey results in text files
> for simplicity and 'bullet-proofness', but I need the added
> flexibility of being able to retrieve the data in more than one way.
> I AM a little uncertain of how best to get the data into a text file
> to then feed into Excel (pretty reports and graphs), which was the
> issue in my second question. Probably it's simply 'SELECT...INTO
> OUTFILE...', but I'm trying to think of ways to avoid my client
> having to ftp.
>
--- directly into Excel ---
print 'Content-type: application/ms-excel', "\n";
print 'Content-Disposition: inline filename="foo.csv"', "\n\n";
-- or save as file ---
print 'Content-type: octet/stream', "\n";
print 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="foo.csv"', "\n\n";
$res=SQLQuery("SELECT ...");
while ( @row = $res->fetchrow()) {
print join(',', @row), "\r\n";
}
Regards,
--
Don Read [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to
steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.
(53kr33t w0rdz: sql table query)
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