MSSQL Select export to CSV

Question

I try to create a csv file with selected rows from a mssql database. The export works but the formatting is wrong.

PHP:

require_once("config/config.php");

$connectionInfo = array("Database"=>DB_DB, "UID"=>DB_USER, "PWD"=>DB_PASSWORD);
$conn = sqlsrv_connect(DB_HOST, $connectionInfo);

if ($conn === false ) {
    die (print_r(sqlsrv_errors(), true));
}

$sql = "SELECT * FROM [RC.Appointments]";
$result = sqlsrv_query($conn, $sql);

if (!$result) die ('Couldn\'t fetch records');

$headers = array();

foreach (sqlsrv_field_metadata($result) as $fieldMetadata) {
    $headers[] = $fieldMetadata['Name'];
}

$fp = fopen('php://output', 'w');
if ($fp && $result) {
    header('Content-Type: text/csv');
    header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="export.csv"');
    header('Pragma: no-cache');
    header('Expires: 0');
    fputcsv($fp, $headers);
    while ($row = sqlsrv_fetch_array($result, SQLSRV_FETCH_NUMERIC)) {
        fputcsv($fp, array_values($row));
    }
    die;
}

Dont know why there are no headers and I need the data seperate by columns. Is the problem caused by the missing headers?

the output in sublimetext

appointment_id,terminname,datum
151,"Bitte Terminnamen vergeben",18.02.2014
152,"Bitte Terminnamen vergeben",19.02.2014
153,"Bitte Terminnamen vergeben",20.02.2014
154,"Bitte Terminnamen vergeben",25.02.2014
155,"Bitte Terminnamen vergeben",26.02.2014
156,"Bitte Terminnamen vergeben",27.02.2014
157,"Bitte Terminnamen vergeben",31.12.2014

Answer 1

As from the second output with sublimetext, the $headers array doesn't contain anything.

So the statement $headers[] = sqlsrv_get_field($result , $i); needs to be checked.

As it's furthermore dumping the array instead of printing it, I would try: fputcsv($fp, array_values($headers));

In order to get this interpreted by Excel properly, change the delimiter to ;: fputcsv($fp, array_values($headers), ';');

Answer 2

The problem is that sqlsrv_get_field() returns the data in the current field and not the name and it has to be setup to use the correct index by calling sqlsrv_fetch(). But this is not what you want to do. What you need to do is to get the headers which can be done like this:

foreach( sqlsrv_field_metadata($result) as $fieldMetadata)
{
    $headers[] = $fieldMetadata['Name'];
}

and as been already pointed out by Alex the correct way to write the headers to the csv file is:

fputcsv($fp, array_values($headers));

Now as for the way the file is displayed in Excel you can import the file using the Text import Wizard explained here