HI everyone,

I think I'm getting closer to understanding functions, but I'm
blanking on how to fix a problem that I have... I am attempting to
export a database to excel, which was working before converting the
code into a function.

What's happening is, I have the code set and it downloads the file
into excel, but it doesn't have the database fields in it, rather a
copy of the entire webpage which it trys to put into excel. Below is
the code that I am using in my function to export the records:

<?PHP
function excelexportfunc($select, $sortOrder, $exportdate) {

$export = mysql_query($select);
$fields = mysql_num_fields($export);

for ($i = 0; $i < $fields; $i++) {
$header .= mysql_field_name($export, $i) . "\t";
}

while($row = mysql_fetch_row($export)) {
$line = '';
foreach($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);

if ($data =="") {
$data ="\n(0) Records Found!\n";
}

header("Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=Export.".
$exportdate.".xls");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");



print "$header\n$data";

}

?>

I am calling the function like so: "excelexportfunc($select,
$sortOrder, $exportdate);"

the $select is specified in an IF statement on the calling page like so:

if($exportoption =="all"){
$sortOrder= $_SESSION['order'];
$search = "";
$select = "SELECT * FROM ".$table." order by ".$sortOrder."";

}else{

$sortOrder = $_SESSION['order'];
$search = $_SESSION['search'];
$select = "SELECT * FROM ".$table." WHERE FName like '%".$search."%'
or LName like '%".$search."%' or Add1 like '%".$search."%' or Add2
like '%".$search."%' or City like '%".$search."%' or State like '%".
$search."%' or Zip like '%".$search."%' or XCode like '%".$search."%'
order by ".$sortOrder."";
}

If anyone has any ideas I would love to hear about them. Hopefully
it's just a simple "." in the wrong place!


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Jason Pruim
Raoset Inc.
Technology Manager
MQC Specialist
3251 132nd ave
Holland, MI, 49424
www.raoset.com
japruim@raoset.com