Converting HTML Table to a CSV automatically using PHP?

Answer 1

To expand on the accepted answer I did this which allows me to ignore columns by class name and also deals with blank rows/columns.

You can use str_get_html http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/. Just include it and away you go! :)

$html = str_get_html($html); // give this your HTML string

header('Content-type: application/ms-excel');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=sample.csv');

$fp = fopen("php://output", "w");

foreach($html->find('tr') as $element) {
  $td = array();
  foreach( $element->find('th') as $row) {
    if (strpos(trim($row->class), 'actions') === false && strpos(trim($row->class), 'checker') === false) {
      $td [] = $row->plaintext;
    }
  }
  if (!empty($td)) {
    fputcsv($fp, $td);
  }

  $td = array();
  foreach( $element->find('td') as $row) {
    if (strpos(trim($row->class), 'actions') === false && strpos(trim($row->class), 'checker') === false) {
      $td [] = $row->plaintext;
    }
  }
  if (!empty($td)) {
    fputcsv($fp, $td);
  }
}

fclose($fp);
exit;