PHP - Excel File Download With Php

Dear PHPFreak members,
I have been searching a solution for serving a file download via my website. The file to be downloaded is actually on a remote server.

What i need is a code that serves as a download medium without actually downloading the file to my web server. Something like masking file url 

Can anyone help me with it ???
Have been trying this since days. But no solution till date.

hello everyone, please anyone can help me how to read data of excel file in php

I have an excel file that I want to show in PHP page. I dont want this to first download and then view. I want it something like gmail where you just click on the file name and it opens up. Can you please give me an idea as how to do this.

Regards,

Faisa

Hi Guys,
I am looking for a way to format excel cells using PHP, I am exporting mysql data to excel file using below method:


$fields = array("Date", "Time In", "Time Out", "Hours", "Project", "Component", "Sub-Component", "Work Done", "Supervisor Changes", PHP_EOL);
file_put_contents($filename, implode("\t", $fields), FILE_APPEND);


Now I want to make BOLD all this header fields, so please help me to this construct..

Thank you

Hello,

Is it possible to read the content of an excel file with file_get_contents. I tried it a couple times. The result looked like this:

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And if it's possible can somebody tell me what i'm doing wrong.

Thanx

Hi all,

Does anyone know of a way of extracting/reading images from an excel file using PHP?

This seems great (http://phpexcel.codeplex.com/) but I can't see a way of reading images from excel files.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Hello Everyone,

I'm new to PHP and got a good big stuff.

I would like to write an image in excel file. There will be almost 600+ rows and each row will have url and qrcode image. I would like to write an excel file which will write url and respective image into the next cell of the url.

Is it possible to write an image in excel file? If yes, can anyone please guide me how? I have read so many post saying to use a pear package but again pear package is not allowing to write jpe/gif it only allows .bmp files. So, pear package is I don't think will work for me. I have also attached an example excel file which is showing the way I require to have an output.

Please anyone if having any idea guide me and let me know.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Looking forward to hear from you soon!

Hi, this is my first time here.

i am trying to create an xls file from the data i get from mysql. here is the code i tried but i am not able to use it correctly.
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ob_start();
include('config');
$datacat = mysql_query("SELECT *
FROM `leads`") or die(mysql_error());
$name = mysql_fetch_assoc($datacat);

$line1="Industry,Company Name,Officials Name,Job Title,Country,Direct Number Mobile Number,Switch Board Number,E-mail,Executive NamePitch Date,Call Back Date,Comments\t";
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($datacat, MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
$line2= $name['industry'].",".$name['company_name'].",".$name['officials_name'].",".$name['job_title'].",".$name['country'].",".$name['direct_number_mobile_number'].",".$name['switch_board_number'].",".$name['email'].",".$name['executive_name'].",".$name['pitch_date'].",".$name['call_back_date'].",".$name['comment']."\t"."\n";
}
$data="$line1\n$line2\n";
 
header("Content-type: application/x-msdownload");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=extraction.xls");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");
print "$header\n$data";

i get my webpage title in the top of xls file and all the fields in xls file are separated by commas, whereas i want them to be in proper tables.

Help would be much appreciated.

I have an excel file that has several columns with different data and I need to create a form that can upload this excel file and insert the data from the columns into its conrresponding data columns in a mysql database. I know how to create the form but I have no idea how to get the file and tell it to input each cell of data into its corresponding field in the mysql database. Does anyone know how to do this? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

what I am trying to do is use this php script to load the data being submitted in the html form into my database and then populate the database into an excel (xls) file and then e-mail it to my address.
 
Everything works great it populates into the database and creates the xls file perfect. But it is wanting me to download the file. What can I add to the script to have it e-mail the file to my e-mail address INSTEAD of downloading it.

Code: [Select]
<?php

define('DB_NAME', 'database');
define('DB_USER', 'username');
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password');
define('DB_HOST', 'hostname');

$link = mysql_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD);
if (!$link)   
{
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());  
}

$db_selected = mysql_select_db(DB_NAME, $link);

if (!$db_selected) {
die('Can\'t use ' . DB_NAME . ': ' . mysql_error());
}

$value1 = $_POST['groupname'];
$value2 = $_POST['name'];
$value3 = $_POST['address'];
$value4 = $_POST['city'];
$value5 = $_POST['state'];
$value6 = $_POST['zip'];
$value7 = $_POST['homephone'];
$value8 = $_POST['cellphone'];
$value9 = $_POST['email'];
$value10 = $_POST['age'];
$value11 = $_POST['maritalstatus'];
$value12 = $_POST['income'];
$value13 = $_POST['contact1'];
$value14 = $_POST['contact2'];
$value15 = $_POST['contact3'];
$value16 = $_POST['date1'];
$value17 = $_POST['date2'];
$value18 = $_POST['date3'];


$sql = "INSERT INTO clients (groupname, name, address, city, state, zip, homephone, cellphone, email, age, maritalstatus, income, contact1, contact2, contact3, date1, date2, date3) VALUES ('$value1', '$value2', '$value3', '$value4', '$value5', '$value6', '$value7', '$value8', '$value9', '$value10', '$value11', '$value12', '$value13', '$value14', '$value15', '$value16', '$value17', '$value18')";

if (!mysql_query($sql)) {
die('Error: ' . mysql_error());
}

mysql_close();

mysql_connect('hostname', 'username', 'password');
mysql_select_db('database');

$sql = "SELECT
`groupname` AS `Group`,
`name` AS `Customer Name`, 
`address` AS `Address`,
`city` AS `City`,
`state` AS `State`,
`zip` AS `Zip Code`,
`homephone` AS `Home Phone`,
`cellphone` AS `Cell Phone`,
`email` AS `E-Mail`,
`age` AS `Age Group`,
`maritalstatus` AS `Marital Status`,
`income` AS `Household Income`,
`contact1` AS `Contact VIA`,
`contact2` AS `Contact VIA`,
`contact3` AS `Contact VIA`,
`date1` AS `1st Date`,
`date2` AS `2nd Date`,
`date3` AS `3rd Date`

FROM fundtour_info.clients clients";

// Query Database
$result=mysql_query($sql);
$filename = 'file.xls';

// Send Header
header("Pragma: public");
header("Expires: 0");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Type: application/download");;
header("Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=$filename");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary ");

// XLS Data Cell

xlsBOF();   
xlsWriteLabel(0,0,"Group");
xlsWriteLabel(0,1,"Name");
xlsWriteLabel(0,2,"Address");
xlsWriteLabel(0,3,"City");
xlsWriteLabel(0,4,"State");
xlsWriteLabel(0,5,"Zip Code");
xlsWriteLabel(0,6,"Home Phone");
xlsWriteLabel(0,7,"Cell Phone");
xlsWriteLabel(0,8,"E-mail Address :");
xlsWriteLabel(0,9,"Age Group");
xlsWriteLabel(0,10,"Marital Status");
xlsWriteLabel(0,11,"Income");
xlsWriteLabel(0,12,"Contact Via");
xlsWriteLabel(0,13,"Dates");
   
$xlsRow = 1;
while(list($groupname,$name,$address,$city,$state,$zip,$homephone,$cellphone,$email,$age,$maritalstatus,$income,$contact1, $contact2, $contact3,$date1, $date3, $date3)=mysql_fetch_row($result)) 
{
++$i;
xlsWriteLabel($xlsRow,0,"$groupname");
xlsWriteLabel($xlsRow,1,"$name"); 
xlsWriteLabel($xlsRow,2,"$address");
xlsWriteLabel($xlsRow,3,"$city");
xlsWriteLabel($xlsRow,4,"$state");
xlsWriteLabel($xlsRow,5,"$zip");
xlsWriteLabel($xlsRow,6,"$homephone");
xlsWriteLabel($xlsRow,7,"$cellphone");
xlsWriteLabel($xlsRow,8,"$email");
xlsWriteLabel($xlsRow,9,"$age");
xlsWriteLabel($xlsRow,10,"$maritalstatus");
xlsWriteLabel($xlsRow,11,"$income");
xlsWriteLabel($xlsRow,12,"$contact1, $contact2, $contact3");
xlsWriteLabel($xlsRow,13,"$date1, $date3, $date3");                      
$xlsRow+++;
}
xlsEOF();
exit();

function xlsBOF() {
    echo pack("ssssss", 0x809, 0x8, 0x0, 0x10, 0x0, 0x0);  
    return;
}

function xlsEOF() {
    echo pack("ss", 0x0A, 0x00);
    return;
}

function xlsWriteNumber($Row, $Col, $Value) {
    echo pack("sssss", 0x203, 14, $Row, $Col, 0x0);
    echo pack("d", $Value);
    return;
}

function xlsWriteLabel($Row, $Col, $Value ) {
    $L = strlen($Value);
    echo pack("ssssss", 0x204, 8 + $L, $Row, $Col, 0x0, $L);
    echo $Value;
return;
} 

?>
Thanks for any help

Hi..,
My code is like:
Code: [Select]
<?php
$filename ="excelreport.xls";
print "<table border=1>";
print "<tr ><td valign=bottom><img src=http://abc/images/big.png ></img></td>
<td valign=bottom><img src=http://abc/images/small.png ></img></td>
</tr>";
print "</table>";

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

?>when I open the excel file, the images alignment is from top to bottom(equal from top of image).
what i want is from bottom to top(equal from bottom of image).

i did try using valign in td property, but still the images equal from top of image

thanks for any reply/ help

Hi,

i have export the search result to excel file, but arabic characters not displaying properly in excel file, eventhough i mention the header content type as utf-8

here my code...

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<?php
include("global.php");
// Original PHP code by Chirp Internet: www.chirp.com.au 
// Please acknowledge use of this code by including this header. 

function cleanData(&$str) 
{
 $str = preg_replace("/\t/", "\\t", $str); $str = preg_replace("/\r?\n/", "\\n", $str); 
 if(strstr($str, '"')) $str = '"' . str_replace('"', '""', $str) . '"'; 
} 

$sql = $_SESSION['emp_search_sql'];
// file name for download 
$filename = "employees_" . date('Ymd') . ".xls";
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$filename\"");
header("Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel; charset=UTF-8"); 
header("Pragma: no-cache";


$flag = false;
 $result = $DB_site->query($sql) or die('Query failed!');
while(false !== ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)))
{
if(!$flag) 
{
// display field/column names as first row 

echo implode("\t", array_keys($row)) . "\n"; $flag = true; 
} 
array_walk($row, 'cleanData'); 
echo implode("\t", array_values($row)) . "\n";
}

?>


Thanks,

Hi all,

I'm trying to make a PHP script that downloads a file off a remote FTP server and serves the file to the visitor with a limited download speed.

Right now I'm using fopen() like this:

Code: [Select]
$path = "ftp://".$username.":".$password."@".$server."/";
$fullPath = ($path.$fileName);

$speed = 400; // 400 kb/s download rate

    header("Cache-control: private");
    header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
    //header("Content-Length: ".filesize($fullPath));
    header("Content-Disposition: filename=\"".$fileName."\"");

    flush();

   $fd = fopen($fullPath, "r");
   while(!feof($fd)) {
         echo fread($fd, round($speed*1024));
       flush();
       sleep(1);
   }
   fclose ($fd);


The file does download but with the wrong speed (8kb/s), does anyone know why?

When I run the same code with a local file instead of a file on FTP it works fine and downloads at the speed I set it to..

Thanks

I've written the following code:

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<?php
echo '<img src="Sheph.png" />';


function Wad(){
if (file_exists("Sheph.png")) {
    header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
    header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
    header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename("Sheph.png"));
    header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
    header('Expires: 0');
    header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
    header('Pragma: public');
    header('Content-Length: ' . filesize("Sheph.png"));
    ob_clean();
    flush();
    readfile("Sheph.png");
    exit;
}
}
Wad();
?>
What I want to do is show the image AND show a file download window.
The problem is that it shows the download window but the image doesn't appear. and if I comment the function and keep the echo part only,the image appears normally.

What's wrong ? 

Hello!

I'm making a interface in a website do manage files in a ftp hosted on other server.

I'm using the function ftp_get() to download a file but I've tried different aways but I dosent seem do be able to download the file directly from the FTP server do the user the only way it works is if I download the file to the website server first then to the client.

Is there any way that I can download the file directly to the user without have to hosting it permanently on the website server?

Thank you