Exporting Table Data To Excel in PHP Tutorial

In this tutorial, we will create a Export Table Data As Excel using PHP. This code will export your MySQLi data into a Microsoft Excel document. The code itself uses the header content function to translate the MySQLi data, then to be able to download as an excel format. This is a user-friendly program feel free to modify and use it in your system.

We will be using PHP as a scripting language that interprets in the web server such as XAMPP, WAMP, etc. It is widely used by modern website applications to handle and protect user confidential information.

Getting Started:

First you have to download & install XAMPP or any local server that run PHP scripts. Here's the link for XAMPP server https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html.

And this is the link for the jquery that i used in this tutorial https://jquery.com/.

Lastly, this is the link for the bootstrap that i used for the layout design https://getbootstrap.com/.

Creating Database

Open your database web server then create a database name in it db_excel, after that click Import then locate the database file inside the folder of the application then click ok.

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Or, you can simply copy/paste the SQL script below in your PHPMyAdmin SQL Page to create our database table and its column. To do this, navigate your database in PHpMyadmin to the SQL Tab. Then, paste SQL script in the provided text area and click the "Go" button.