Exporting table from Amazon RDS into a csv file

Question

I have a mysql database running in Amazon RDS, and I want to know how to export an entire table to csv format. I currently use mysql server on Windows to query the Amazon da

Answer 1

I'm using Yii Framework on EC2 connecting to RDS mySQL. The key is to use fputcsv(). The following works perfectly, both on my localhost as well as production.

$file = 'path/to/filename.csv';
$export_csv = "SELECT * FROM table";

$qry = Yii::app()->db->createCommand($export_csv)->queryAll();

$fh = fopen($file, "w+");
foreach ($qry as $row) {
    fputcsv($fh, $row, ',' , '"');
}
fclose ($fh);