PHP export CSV when data having UTF8 charcters

Question

In MySQL I have set my data field type to utf8_bin and i am storing data in Unicode. Texts are being properly displayed in web pages.

I want to generate ex

Answer 1

I had the same problem and I did it by combining two things:

First, you have to change table collation to UTF8 e.g: "utf8_general_ci" (or just make sure of that), then add this code after your MySQL query:

mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8");

Like

$result = mysql_query("SHOW COLUMNS FROM table WHERE Field NOT IN ('user_id', 'password')");
mysql_query("SET NAMES utf8");

And then, use this as header (adapt with your needs):

header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header("Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel");
header("Content-disposition: csv" . date("Y-m-d") . ".csv");
header("Content-disposition: filename=".$filename.".csv");
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Pragma: public');
print "\xEF\xBB\xBF"; // UTF-8 BOM
print $csv_output;
exit;