PHP Array to CSV in UTF-8 read by MS Excel
To people who are looking for a PHP script that can convert an array (mostly multi-dimensional array) to CSV in UTF-8, here is the code and file for you to download: PHP Array To CSV Read By MS Excel in UTF-8 Credit to Jérôme Jaglale , what I am looking for is a CodeIgniter solution to convert array to CSV, but it can also be used in non-CI PHP application. This is not a class, just a function (Helper). The full code below: if(!function_exists('array_to_csv')){ function array_to_csv($array, $download = ""){ // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13108157/php-array-to-csv if(empty($download)){ $res = array(); foreach($array as $arr) { $res[] = implode(',', $arr); } return $res; }else{ $output = fopen("php://output",'w') or die("Can't open php://output"); // http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4348802/how-can-i-output-a-utf-8-csv-in-php-that-excel-will-read-properly header('Content-En