ChronoForms allows you to export records to Excel and CSV formats. This document has some help tips and suggestions and a recipe for handling large exports.

Level: Advanced - requires some PHP and MySQL knowledge.

This How-to document links to the recipe ‘Exporting your results to Excel or a CSV file’ in Chapter 4 of the “ChronoForms 1.3 for Joomla! sites cookbook”.

Six pages

Contents: Diagnosing Export problems; Hand-coding special exports; Connecting to another MySQL database; Connecting to a Microsoft Access database; Exporting large files; Specify a character set for an Excel Backup.

Important: This document was written for ChronoForms v3 on Joomla! 1.5; it may be possible to adapt the contents to ChronoForms v4 and/or Joomla! 1.6 but this has not been tested.