Good morning Jay, Try adding below the header in a php file & output the query data in HTML table format.
<? header("Content-Type: application/x-excel"); header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=\"excel.xls\""); header("Expires: 0"); header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0"); ?> Best regards, James --- Jay Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy, > > I need to write some data out to Excel spreadsheets > for some of our managers > to muddle with for projections. The query works > fine... > > SELECT RecordID, RecordDate, count(*) AS Quantity > FROM tblFOO > Group By RecordID, RecordDate > > It returns; > +----------+------------+----------+ > | RecordID | RecordDate | Quantity | > +----------+------------+----------+ > | 100101 | 2002-03-21 | 6675 | > | 100101 | 2002-03-22 | 6794 | > | 100101 | 2002-03-23 | 2916 | > | 100101 | 2002-03-24 | 1215 | > | 100101 | 2002-03-25 | 6152 | > | 100101 | 2002-03-26 | 5398 | > +----------+------------+----------+ > > as expected (Only a subset here, there are hundreds > of rows). I want to > place this data like this in an Excel table (bad > ascii art example to > follow); > > +------------+--------+--------+--------+ > | RecordID | 100101 | 100120 | 100131 | > +------------+--------+--------+--------+ > | Date | | | | > +------------+--------+--------+--------+ > | 2002-03-01 | | 12 | 130101 | > +------------+--------+--------+--------+ > | 2002-03-21 | 6675 | | 1113 | > +------------+--------+--------+--------+ > | 2002-03-22 | 6794 | 287 | 29045 | > +------------+--------+--------+--------+ > | 2002-03-23 | 2916 | 6 | 233427 | > +------------+--------+--------+--------+ > > RecordID along the top row, dates down the side, > quantities at the > intersection that they belong. I could get an OBDC > connection from Excel to > MySQL and then write a complicated macro to do this, > or if posssible (which > is what I am really looking for) I would like to > SELECT..INTO..OUTFILE an > Excel file with the proper formatting. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks! > > Jay Blanchard > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list > archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: > http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php