PHP Streaming CSV always adds UTF-8 BOM

Question

The following code gets a \'report line\' as an array and uses fputcsv to tranform it into CSV. Everything is working great except for the fact that regardless of the charset I

Answer 1

I don't know if this solves your problem but have you tried using the print and implode functions to do the same thing?

header("Content-type: text/csv; charset=iso-8859-1");
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"report.csv\"");

for($i = 0; $i < $report->rowCount; $i++) {
    print(implode(',',$report->getTaxMatrixLineValues($i)));
}

That's not tested but pretty obvious.

Answer 2

My guess would be that your php source code file has a BOM, and you have php's output buffering enabled.