在PHP中将CSV导出为Excel

Question

I made a CSV as an example:

Type, जिल्ला शिक्षा कार्यालय डडेलधुरा,NGOI,NGO Request,21,0,0 Response, 4,0,0

and it has utf-8 characters and i want to export it to excel so i posted it and to export it to excel and after referring to several questions on stackoverflow i did as follow:

header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header("Content-Type: text/csv; charset=utf-8");
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=file.csv');
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
header('Pragma: public');
print $_POST['csv_data'];exit;

the csv is exported to excel nicely but character encoding in not converted and shows something like this: जिलà¥à¤²à¤¾ शिकà¥à¤·à¤¾ कारà¥à¤¯à¤¾à¤²à¤¯ डडेलधà¥à¤°à¤¾ and when i add

echo "\xEF\xBB\xBF";

the character encoding is converted but the data appears in one column like this:

Type, जिल्ला शिक्षा कार्यालय डडेलधुरा,NGOI,NGO
Request,21,0,0
Response, 4,0,0

Answer 1

UTF8 + CSV + Excel is known to be a problematic combination. Excel just isn't very good at importing CSV.

One thing you should try is to add a UTF8 BOM character at the start of your CSV file; that might help Excel work out what to do with it.

I'm optimistic that will help, but if it doesn't, you may have to re-think using CSV for this.

Other options you could use instead of CSV would include XML, and creating an actual Excel file from within PHP (there are a number of libraries available which can do this, the best one being PHPExcel ).

Hope that helps.