On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Rahul S. Johari <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Ave,
>
> I'm trying to retrieve data from a DBF database and write it to a CSV file
> in a comma delimited format. I'm able to get the data and write it to CSV,
> but it only writes the last row/record ... not all the records. I know I
> don't have the correct code and I'm hoping someone can help me...
>
> _____________
> #CREATE CSV
> $date = date('mdy');
> $_file = 'CSV/TransferData_'.$date.'.csv';
> $_fp = @fopen( $_file, 'w' );
>
> #SELECT DBF TO OPEN - READ ONLY
> $db = dbase_open("mydata.dbf", 0);
> #PULL UP RECORD
> if ($db) {
> $record_numbers = dbase_numrecords($db);
> for ($i = 1; $i <= $record_numbers; $i++) {
> $row = dbase_get_record_with_names($db, $i);
>
> #WRITE ROWS TO VARIABLE
> $_csv_data =
> trim($row['PHONE']).",".trim($row['DATE']).","."\n"; <-- THIS is where my
> problem is! This only writes the last row!!
> }
> }
>
> #WRITE TO CSV
> @fwrite( $_fp, $_csv_data );
> @fclose( $_fp );
> _____________
>
> Thanks!
>
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> Rahul Sitaram Johari
> Founder, Internet Architects Group, Inc.
>
> [Email] [email protected]
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You are overwriting the variable ($csv_data) that holds the row, add a
period (concatenator) operator to build the up the data
#WRITE ROWS TO VARIABLE
$_csv_data .=
trim($row['PHONE']).",".trim($row['DATE']).","."\n";
<-- THIS is where my problem is! This only writes the last row!!
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