Converting HTML Table to a CSV automatically using PHP?

Answer 1

Assuming that out_str has your html table data

$csv = $out_str;
        $csv = str_replace("<table class='gradienttable'>","",$csv);
        $csv = str_replace("</table>","",$csv);
        $csv = str_replace("</td><td>",",",$csv);
        $csv = str_replace("<td>","",$csv);
        $csv = str_replace("</td>","",$csv);
        $csv = str_replace("</font>","",$csv);
        $csv = str_replace("</tr>","",$csv);
        $csv = str_replace("<tr>","\n",$csv);

Remove any CSS from the file

        $csv = str_replace("<font color='yellow'>","",$csv);
        $csv = str_replace("<font color='red'>","",$csv);
        $csv = str_replace("<font color='green'>","",$csv);
        $csv = str_replace("</th><th>",",",$csv);
        $csv = str_replace("<th>","",$csv);
        $csv = str_replace("</th>","",$csv);

        file_put_contents('currentFile.csv',$csv);

Output the file currentFile.csv to the user

Hope it helps!

Answer 2

You can use str_get_html http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/

include "simple_html_dom.php";
$table = '<table border="1">
<tr>
<th>Header 1</th>
<th>Header 2</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>row 1, cell 1</td>
<td>row 1, cell 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>row 2, cell 1</td>
<td>row 2, cell 2</td>
</tr>
</table>';

$html = str_get_html($table);



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

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

foreach($html->find('tr') as $element)
{
        $th = array();
        foreach( $element->find('th') as $row)  
        {
            $th [] = $row->plaintext;
        }

        $td = array();
        foreach( $element->find('td') as $row)  
        {
            $td [] = $row->plaintext;
        }
        !empty($th) ? fputcsv($fp, $th) : fputcsv($fp, $td);
}


fclose($fp);