I'm really really new to PHP, so if you can explain it to me what my code is actually doing and why the result is what it is I would appreciate very much. I'm probably screwing up something very simple.
Basically I want to query a MySQL database, create a csv with the data, and download the csv. Pretty simple. Here is my code:
<?php
include("Includes/PHPheader.php");
$query_string = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
parse_str($query_string);
$sql = "SELECT many_columns_i_removed_from_this_sample_code FROM table WHERE id = '".$id."'";
$result = $conn->query($sql);
$row = $result->fetch_assoc();
$f = fopen("csv/tmp.csv", "w");
fputcsv($f, array_keys($row),';');
fputcsv($f,$row,';');
rewind($f);
header('Content-Type: application/csv');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="tmp.csv"');
fpassthru($f);
fclose($f);
?>
There are some HTML code below it that shouldn't affect anything, but just in case here it is.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Well, I thought this would download my csv with no problem. If I go to the csv folder, there it is, the tmp.csv file I created, with the proper header and data.
But when I open the tmp.csv file I downloaded, it is actually the html code of the page, and not the data I expected.
What is going on?
In case it helps, I'm using WebMatrix 3.0.
