<?php
// lets say my function is in a file cvs_export.php
require("cvs_export.php")
 
// connect to the db
$link = mysql_connect('mysql_host', 'mysql_user', 'mysql_password');
mysql_select_db('my_database');
 
// run the query
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM my_table");
 
// pass the result to my function:
csv_from_mysql_resource($result);
?>

As for the error, it almost looks like something you would get with PHP4 which has no passing by reference. You can easily rewrite the foreach loop like this:

foreach ($row as $key => $value)
{
        $row[$key] = str_replace("\r\n", "", $value);
        $row[$key] = "\"" . $value . "\"";
}

This removes the pass by reference syntax that seems to be causing the error. Just make sure you don’t have any white spaces before or after the PHP tags and you should be fine.

I either get the error message “Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘&’, expecting T_VARIABLE or ‘$’” in the line where “foreach ($row as &$value)
” appears - I’m running PHP5 - or else a blank white page. Any chance you can expand on implementing this function?

Thanks for the tip though

the ’s got eaten out of my last comment.

You can always convert back from ‘’ to ‘\r\n’ if you need to later but you cannot add newlines back in if you removed them…

Thank you!!!!!