The following plugin will generate a tab-delimited file, and feed it to the client as an Excel file.
$this->load->plugin('to_excel'); $this->db->use_table('tablename'); $this->db->select('field1', 'field2'); // run joins, order by, where, or anything else here $query = $this->db->get(); to_excel($query, ['filename']); // filename is optional, without it, the plugin will default to 'exceloutput'
So you could run:
to_excel($query, 'myfile'); // outputs myfile.xls to_excel($query); // outputs exceloutput.xls // you could also use a model here to_excel($this->model_name->functioncall());
/system/plugins/to_excel_pi.php
<?php if (!defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed'); /* * Excel library for Code Igniter applications * Author: Derek Allard, Dark Horse Consulting, www.darkhorse.to, April 2006 */ function to_excel($query, $filename='exceloutput') { $headers = ''; // just creating the var for field headers to append to below $data = ''; // just creating the var for field data to append to below $obj =& get_instance(); $fields = $query->field_data(); if ($query->num_rows() == 0) { echo '<p>The table appears to have no data.</p>'; } else { foreach ($fields as $field) { $headers .= $field->name . "\t"; } foreach ($query->result() as $row) { $line = ''; foreach($row as $value) { if ((!isset($value)) OR ($value == "")) { $value = "\t"; } else { $value = str_replace('"', '""', $value); $value = '"' . $value . '"' . "\t"; } $line .= $value; } $data .= trim($line)."\n"; } $data = str_replace("\r","",$data); header("Content-type: application/x-msdownload"); header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$filename.xls"); echo "$headers\n$data"; } } ?>