{"id":6596,"date":"2023-04-13T04:51:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T04:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studysection.com\/blog\/?p=6596"},"modified":"2023-07-28T11:06:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T11:06:34","slug":"how-to-create-and-download-a-csv-file-in-moodle-totara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studysection.com\/blog\/how-to-create-and-download-a-csv-file-in-moodle-totara\/","title":{"rendered":"How to create and download a CSV file in Moodle\/Totara"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>First, include the \u201ccsvlib.class.php\u201d file:<br \/>\n<code>require_once ($CFG-&gt;libdir . '\/csvlib.class.php');<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Now, call the constructor of the csv_export_writer class:<br \/>\n<code>$exportcsv = new csv_export_writer ( 'semicolon' );<\/code><br \/>\n<strong><em>There are three arguments you can pass to the constructor:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first is used to pass the delimiter that is used to separate fields. The strings &#8220;comma,&#8221; &#8220;tab,&#8221; &#8220;semicolon,&#8221; &#8220;colo,&#8221; and &#8220;cfg&#8221; can be used as delimiters.<\/li>\n<li>The character that is used to determine the enclosures is supplied as the second argument.<\/li>\n<li>In the third parameter, you can set the mime type of the file. Default mime type is \u201capplication\/download\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Next, set the name of the file being exported:<br \/>\n<code>$exportcsv-&gt;set_filename ( \u201cExportUsersData\u201d );<\/code><\/li>\n<li>To add the data in the csv file, you will have to call the add_data() function.This function takes only an array as an argument. Let&#8217;s say I&#8217;m making a csv file to house the user&#8217;s information. Here I am creating the header row in the file:<br \/>\n<code>$headers = array (<br \/>\n\u2018Name,<br \/>\n'Email',<br \/>\n'Address\u2019'<br \/>\n);<br \/>\n$exportcsv-&gt;add_data ( $headers ); \/\/Add Header Row<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Using the same function, you can create multiple rows in a csv file. Now, I&#8217;m adding the actual user information to the file:<br \/>\n<code>$userdata = array (<br \/>\narray (<br \/>\n\"Test User1\",<br \/>\n\"testuser1@gmail.com\",<br \/>\n\"CHD\"<br \/>\n),<br \/>\narray (<br \/>\n\"Test User2\",<br \/>\n\"testuser2@gmail.com\",<br \/>\n\"AMT\"<br \/>\n)<br \/>\n);<br \/>\nforeach ( $userdata as $userrow ) {<br \/>\n$exportcsv-&gt;add_data ( $userrow ); \/\/Create a row for each user<br \/>\n}<\/code><\/li>\n<li>If you want to display the csv data line by line, you can run the print_csv_data() method.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, you must execute the &#8220;download_file()&#8221; function to download the csv file. Here, I&#8217;m using the below code to download the csv file:<br \/>\n<code>$exportcsv-&gt;download_file();<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em><strong>This is the full example:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<code>&lt;?php<br \/>\nrequire_once '..\/..\/config.php'; \/\/ to include $CFG<br \/>\nrequire_once ($CFG-&gt;libdir . 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