they're on separate machines, this seems the fastest method, but i'm not sure 
if it's possible given my setup

[Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 09:48:18AM +0000]
This one time, at band camp, Tom said:

> If your mysql server has access (or can have access) to the directory 
> where you want to dump the file, you can just use the "SELECT.... INTO 
> OUTFILE FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','..." syntax as your query, which is very 
> fast.
> 
> Mirco Blitz wrote:
> 
> >Hi, 
> >Probably the Pear Excel_Syltesheet_Writer works for you.
> >http://pear.php.net/package/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
> >
> >I found out that it is faster with huge data sets on my system.
> >
> >Greetings
> >Mirco
> >
> >-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> >Von: Redmond Militante [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> >Gesendet: Freitag, 11. Februar 2005 00:02
> >An: php-general@lists.php.net
> >Betreff: [PHP] export mysql to csv prob
> >
> >hi
> >
> >i have a script that exports the result of a mysql query to a csv file
> >suitable for downloading
> >
> >the code looks like
> >$result = mysql_query("select * from user,mjp1,mjp2,mjp3,mjp4");
> >while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {     
> >$csv_output .= "$row[userid] $row[firstname] $row[lastname]\n" }
> >
> >header("Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel");
> >header("Content-disposition: csv" . date("Y-m-d") . ".xls");  print
> >$csv_output;
> >
> >this works fine, except that when i expand the line $csv_output
> >.="$row[userid] $row[firstname] $row[lastname] $row[anotherfield]
> >$row[anotherfield] ...\n"} -to include an increasing number of fields, it
> >tends to bog down the speed at which the $csv_output file can be printed.
> >when i have this line output 30+ fields for each row, wait time for output
> >file generation is almost 4-5 minutes.
> >
> >is this the most efficient way to do this?  i'd like to be able to generate
> >the file as quickly as possible.
> >
> >thanks
> >redmond
> >
> >--
> >Redmond Militante
> >Software Engineer / Medill School of Journalism FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p10
> >#0: Wed Sep 29 17:17:49 CDT 2004 i386  4:45PM  up  4:01, 3 users, load
> >averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> >
> > 
> >
> 
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