when i get data from database and export it as a csv file i have following issues :
- the leading zero of the numbers dosnt show
- big numbers shows like this ->
1E+12
how to force MS Excel to show all of my data as string by PHP
You can use double quotes contain the numbers, like this:
if(is_numeric($column)) $column = '"'.$number.'"';
Answer：
This isn’t a MySQL issue, it’s an Excel thing.
This… might help: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2007-excel/disabling-scientific-notation/943b8103-8c50-451d-8037-c697422e2307
But this question is more MS Office related than programming.
(or as comments suggested, use a file format that carries display formatting info, such as .xls)
Answer：
I format it as a string by concatenate it with spaces at its start and end.
CONCAT(" ", database_number, " ") AS "Number For Excel".
Answer：
You can use number_formate() function to convert …
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Function : number_format()
Syntax : number_format ( float $number , int $decimals = 0 , string $dec_point = ‘.’ , string $thousands_sep = ‘,’ )
Example to convert 6.90743E+11 to number use below code
number_format(6.90743E+11,0,”,”) // outputs 690743000000
