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    copied!<p>Exporting a database to an excel file should not be difficult since excel can read xhtml.</p> <p>Just output your information as a regular HTML table</p> <pre><code>&lt;table&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;title&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;record1&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; </code></pre> <p>and then add these headers to force automatic download and interpretation as an excel file:</p> <pre><code>header ("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT"); header ("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D,d M YH:i:s") . " GMT"); header ("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate"); header ("Pragma: no-cache"); header ("Content-type: application/x-msexcel"); header ("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"{$yourFileName}\"" ); header ("Content-Description: PHP Generated Data" ); </code></pre> <p>It should work as intended.</p> <p>EDIT: Here's an example of a table to xls with correct XHTML schema:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php header ("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT"); header ("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D,d M YH:i:s") . " GMT"); header ("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate"); header ("Pragma: no-cache"); header ("Content-type: application/x-msexcel"); header ("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=newtest.xls" ); header ("Content-Description: PHP Generated Data" ); ?&gt; &lt;html xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;meta name="Excel Workbook"&gt; &lt;meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"&gt; &lt;meta name=ProgId content=Excel.Sheet&gt; &lt;meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Excel 14"&gt; &lt;style&gt; #test { font-style:italic; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;table&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;b&gt;header in bold&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;i&gt;header in italic&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold; font-style:italic"&gt;my data with css styling&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;span id="test"&gt;I'm italic 'cause I can read style&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre>
 

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