OpenOffice Calc can not read a simple CSV file. Why?

Question

I have a Web site (PHP) that generates a CSV file (text/csv) with the following content:

ID;E-Mail_User;Name;Applikation;Rolle;Auftragsdatum;Administrator
522;user@do         


        

Answer 1

ID; in the first 3 characters of a file is the signature for a SYLK file. The fourth character can be a P, N or an E which flags certain information about how the rest of the file should be processed... so your "CSV" file is almost certainly being parsed as a SYLK file when that initial signature is read, and the remainder of the file is not valid SYLK format.