The Code2Learn site has posted another in their CodeIgniter "series" about producing various kinds of output from an application based on this framework. In this new article Farhan Khwaja shows how to output a CSV-formatted file.

I have already written posts on how to generate pdf files using CodeIgniter Framework and also on how to generate tabulated pdf file using CodeIgniter Framework. This post will help you to generate a CSV file using CodeIgniter. The data for the CSV File will be taken from the MySQL Database and will be put into the CSV File.

He includes the source for a basic "Generate" controller class that uses a custom "CSV_Helper" to do the work. It has two methods - one to transform array data and another to take the database result object and extract each record.