PHP Array to CSV
Instead of writing out values consider using fputcsv()
.
This may solve your problem immediately.
Note from comment: I should mention that this will be making a file on your server, so you'll need to read that file's contents before outputting it, also if you don't want to save a copy then you'll need to ùnlink`the file when you are done
This is a simple solution that exports an array to csv string:
function array2csv($data, $delimiter = ',', $enclosure = '"', $escape_char = "\\")
{
$f = fopen('php://memory', 'r+');
foreach ($data as $item) {
fputcsv($f, $item, $delimiter, $enclosure, $escape_char);
}
rewind($f);
return stream_get_contents($f);
}
$list = array (
array('aaa', 'bbb', 'ccc', 'dddd'),
array('123', '456', '789'),
array('"aaa"', '"bbb"')
);
var_dump(array2csv($list));
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