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Tue, 05 October 2010 14:19

Derek Turner
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Registered: October 2010

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I want to use MySQL to get a list of email addresses and names and then
output a .csv file to the browser so that it can be saved and then
imported into Thunderbird etc.

Having googled around I think the solution will be:

1. Create and open a local file for writing

2. Write the data to the local file and close it

3. Use appropriate header files and then readfile()

4. Delete the local file

Questions:

1. Is this a reasonable approach? Or should I be outputting to the
browser on the fly? Or using PEAR or something like that?

2. Can the headers appear appear anywhere in the script or must they be
be the first lines?

Other questions depend on your answers to those two, so I'll keep them to
myself for the moment.

<off topic>

I've exported from TB to see what its .csv output file looks like.

1. Do I really need to include all those fields?

2. Will, for example, OE import them properly?

</OT>

tia

Derek

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		Send .csv file to browser By: Derek Turner on Tue, 05 October 2010 14:19
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: Derek Turner on Tue, 05 October 2010 14:20
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: sheldonlg on Tue, 05 October 2010 14:55
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: Derek Turner on Tue, 05 October 2010 15:06
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: sheldonlg on Tue, 05 October 2010 15:11
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: Peter H. Coffin on Wed, 06 October 2010 16:25
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 06 October 2010 16:28
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: Peter H. Coffin on Thu, 07 October 2010 02:55
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: Captain Paralytic on Tue, 05 October 2010 15:14
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: sheldonlg on Tue, 05 October 2010 17:54
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 05 October 2010 16:05
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: Derek Turner on Tue, 05 October 2010 16:52
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: sheldonlg on Tue, 05 October 2010 18:06
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: Adam Harvey on Wed, 06 October 2010 03:50
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 06 October 2010 11:19
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: Adam Harvey on Thu, 07 October 2010 02:42
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: Jerry Stuckle on Thu, 07 October 2010 03:13
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 06 October 2010 00:18
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 06 October 2010 00:21
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: sheldonlg on Tue, 05 October 2010 18:02
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: Captain Paralytic on Wed, 06 October 2010 09:01
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: C. (http://symcbean.b on Tue, 05 October 2010 15:14
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: Michael on Tue, 05 October 2010 15:20
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: Peter H. Coffin on Tue, 05 October 2010 15:25
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: PlastiqueMAN on Tue, 05 October 2010 15:44
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: PlastiqueMAN on Tue, 05 October 2010 15:55
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Wed, 06 October 2010 14:42
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: The Natural Philosoph on Wed, 06 October 2010 15:26
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 06 October 2010 16:36
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: sheldonlg on Wed, 06 October 2010 17:52
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 06 October 2010 18:06
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: Derek Turner on Thu, 07 October 2010 10:25
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: Derek Turner on Thu, 07 October 2010 12:08
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Thu, 07 October 2010 12:19
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: sheldonlg on Thu, 07 October 2010 12:41
		Re: Send .csv file to browser By: Jerry Stuckle on Thu, 07 October 2010 12:49
		Send .csv file to browser - Thanks By: Derek Turner on Sat, 09 October 2010 14:30
		Re: Send .csv file to browser - Thanks By: sheldonlg on Sat, 09 October 2010 15:11

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