Excel Plugin

The following plugin will generate a tab-delimited file, and feed it to the client as an Excel file.

[code] $this->load->plugin('to_excel'); $this->db->use_table('tablename'); $this->db->select('field1', 'field2'); // run joins, order by, where, or anything else here $query = $this->db->get(); to_excel($query, ['filename']); // filename is optional, without it, the plugin will default to 'exceloutput' [/code] So you could run: [code] to_excel($query, 'myfile'); // outputs myfile.xls to_excel($query); // outputs exceloutput.xls // you could also use a model here to_excel($this->model_name->functioncall()); [/code] The plugin is [code] <?php if (!defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed');

/*

• Excel library for Code Igniter applications
• Author: Derek Allard, Dark Horse Consulting, www.darkhorse.to, April 2006 */

function to_excel($query, $filename='exceloutput') { $headers = ''; // just creating the var for field headers to append to below $data = ''; // just creating the var for field data to append to below

 $obj =& get_instance();
 
 $fields = $query->field_data();
 if ($query->num_rows() == 0) {
      echo '<p>The table appears to have no data.</p>';
 } else {
      foreach ($fields as $field) {
         $headers .= $field->name . "\t";
      }
 
      foreach ($query->result() as $row) {
           $line = '';
           foreach($row as $value) {                                            
                if ((!isset($value)) OR ($value == "")) {
                     $value = "\t";
                } else {
                     $value = str_replace('"', '""', $value);
                     $value = '"' . $value . '"' . "\t";
                }
                $line .= $value;
           }
           $data .= trim($line)."\n";
      }
      
      $data = str_replace("\r","",$data);
                     
      header("Content-type: application/x-msdownload");
      header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename.xls");
      echo "$headers\n$data";  
 }

} ?> [/code]