php save to csv file

Question

I\'m wanting to store basic data from a single form box and I\'ve created this php code base, but it doesn\'t seem to be working. Can someone take a glance and see if anything

Answer 1

This part will not behave like you expect, the variables are not evaluated when inside single quotes:

$cvsData ='"$name","$date"'.PHP_EOL;

You will need to use double quotes:

$cvsData ="\"$name\",\"$date\"".PHP_EOL; 

Answer 2

Use the nicer way in php : fputcsv

Otherwise you need to do lot of error handling to achieve in your case.

$list = array (
    array('First Name', 'Last Name', 'Age'),
    array('Angelina ', 'Jolie', '37'),
    array('Tom', 'Cruise', '50')
);

$fp = fopen('file.csv', 'w');

foreach ($list as $fields) {
    fputcsv($fp, $fields);
}

fclose($fp);

Answer 3

You should look into fputcsv. This will add CSV to you file and take care of fields and line ends.

fputcsv($fp,array(array($name,$date)));

You can also specify delimiters and such if you want.