Write a CSV file from a PHP Array

Question

I appreciate there are already a lot of questions around this subject. But, as I\'m not a PHP developer, I\'m struggling to get anything to work for my specific object struc

Answer 1

Try below solution header of csv will be (item, cost, approved by) - replace $data with your array variable:

$data = array(
    array( 'item' => 'Server', 'cost' => 10000, 'approved by' => 'Joe'),
    array( 'item' => 'Mt Dew', 'cost' => 1.25, 'approved by' => 'John'),
    array( 'item' => 'IntelliJ IDEA', 'cost' => 500, 'approved by' => 'James')
);

$fp = fopen('file.csv', 'w');
$i = 0;
foreach ($data as $fields) {
    if($i == 0){
        fputcsv($fp, array_keys($fields));
    }
    fputcsv($fp, array_values($fields));
    $i++;
}

fclose($fp);

for more detail have alook at : PHP: fputcsv - Manual