How To Export MySQL Table Data Into Excel Using JQuery

Hi friends, in this tutorial we will learn how to export MySQL table data into excel using the jQuery plugin. On the other hand, it can also be done with the help of a PHP script. We will discuss it in the upcoming tutorial. But for now, in order to export table data successfully, we have to follow the below steps one by one.

1. Download the jQuery Plugin to export the table data.
   You can also download the plugin from here.
2. Just make a folder and extract the plugin archive and place the archive folder where you have created your PHP file in the root directory.
3. Fetch the MySQL table data from the database in the HTML page with the help of the PHP script.

DDL information of the table

CREATE TABLE student (
id int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
student_name varchar(225) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,
phone_no varchar(225) COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci DEFAULT NULL,
age int(20) DEFAULT NULL,
date_of_birth date DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (id)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=4 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci

4. Include the source file “table2excel.js” in the script tag as shown below.

<script src="jquery-table2excel-master/src/jquery.table2excel.js"></script>

5. Write the function in the script tag of the HTML page to call the plugin for exporting the table data in the excel format.

Complete Code:-

NOTE*

Download the bootstrap CSS and js files from google and include the path of the files in the href attribute of link tag and src attribute of the script tag respectively.

Also, Read, Create Multi-step form submission in PHP using jQuery

CONCLUSION:- I hope this tutorial will help you. If you have any doubt on how to export MySQL table data into excel using jQuery, then please leave your comment below