how to export to excel from mysql database using php

Hi!

The simplest way to export data to excel is to export to csv using mysqli like this

<?php 
$con = new mysqli($host, $user, $password, $database);
 
// Check connection
if ($con->connect_error) {
    die("Connection failed: " . $con->connect_error);
}
$result = mysqli_query($con, 'SELECT * FROM table');
if (mysqli_num_rows($result) > 0) {
$fp = fopen('file.csv', 'w');
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
  fputcsv($fp, $row);
}
fclose($fp);
}
?>

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Regards,
   Tomas Helgi

Dear Thomas, Thank you, but I already have a wonderful export as csv code ( thanks to Ray Paseur )

However I need to export as excel ( not come seperated values )
Do you have code for that? Thank you

Dear Tomas Helgi, thank you for the wonderful code. One more thing I'd like to ask you about this code.

the letters like Ö, İ, Ş , Ğ is not shown properly on the Excel. Instead of this letters, it shows ? ( question mark ) on the excel table?

How can I correct this? Thank you

Hi!

For that you will probably include correct language in the header of the PHP/HTTP response.

header("Content-Language: <your language>")

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See further here on what other headers you could use.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.header.php
http://www.jonasjohn.de/snippets/php/headers.htm

Regards,
     Tomas Helgi

Thank you so much Tomas Helgi Johannsson