PHP fopen()

Introduction

In this tutorial, you will learn How to Export MySQL Data into CSV and Download it as a Zip File using PHP Language. Here, I will show to the steps on how to achieve the said feature for your current or future PHP Projects. The main goal of this tutorial is to give the IT Students or new programmers that are new in PHP Language an idea for exporting data to CSV and zipping files in PHP.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a Export MySQL Data to CSV File. With the use of some built-in PHP Functions such as PHP fopen() and fputcsv() we can create a CSV file with data. This tutorial can be useful for your future projects that requires a CSV Exportation Functionality.

Here, we will create a simple PHP application with dummy MySQL data and has an anchor/button that triggers to export the data to CSV File.