Print new lines into cells of CSV file

Question

I am using php to generate a CSV file. I need to print text wrap within a cell (in Excel you can use Ctrl Enter or Alt Enterimplementation). For this I tried using 'n', 'r' but it didn't help. How can I achieve this?

I am using yii extension ECSVExport to generate csv.

The output I want is as follows:

ID Value
1A
    B
2C
3E
    FF
    G
4 X

Answer 1

Use "\n" within the cell value (wrapped with ") and use "\r\n" as the end of record tag. If If the cell input contains multiple lines, must be surrounded by ".

$fh = fopen('test1.csv', 'w+');
fwrite($fh, "sep=\t" . "\r\n");
fwrite($fh, 'A' ."\t" . 'B' . "\t" . 'C' . "\r\n");
fwrite($fh, 'D' ."\t" . "\"E\nF\nG\"" . "\t" . 'H' . "\r\n");
fclose($fh);

or (use variable)

$varA = 'A';
$varB = 'B';
$varC = 'C';
$varD = 'D';
$varE = 'E';
$varF = 'F';
$varG = 'G';
$varH = 'H';
$fh = fopen('test2.csv', 'w+');
fwrite($fh, "sep=\t"."\r\n");
fwrite($fh, $varA . "\t" . $varB . "\t" . $varC . "\r\n");
fwrite($fh, $varD . "\t" . "\"$varE\n$varF\n$varG\"" . "\t" . $varH . "\r\n");
fclose($fh);

or (use fputcsv())

$fh = fopen('test3.csv', 'w+');
fwrite($fh, "sep=\t" . "\r\n");
fputcsv($fh, array('A', 'B', 'C'), "\t");
fputcsv($fh, array('D', "E\nF\nG", 'H'), "\t");
fclose($fh);

or (using

fputcsv() and variables)

$varA = 'A';
$varB = 'B';
$varC = 'C';
$varD = 'D';
$varE = 'E';
$varF = 'F';
$varG = 'G';
$varH = 'H';
$fh = fopen('test4.csv', 'w+');
fwrite($fh, "sep=\t" . "\r\n");
fputcsv($fh, array($varA, $varB, $varC), "\t");
fputcsv($fh, array($varD, "$varE\n$varF\n$varG", $varH), "\t");
fclose($fh);

Answer 2

Try this

"\n"

Within double quotes