Try something like this:

SELECT * from MyTableName INTO OUTFILE ‘MyTableName_MySQL-TAB-DELIMITED-29JUN08.txt’ FIELDS TERMINATED BY ‘\n’ LINES TERMINATED BY ‘\n’;

If you want a double space (two empty lines) between record groups, just say “LINES TERMINATED BY ‘\n\n’;” instead.

The “FIELDS TERMINATED BY ‘\n’” portion is what puts a newline after each record, instead of a tab. A tab would be ‘\t’ instead.

Maranatha!

Column1_name
Field1_value
Column2_name
Field1_value
Column3_name
Field1_value

Column1_name
Field2_value
Column2_name
Field2_value
Column3_name
Field2_value

For example:

Name
Mike
Location
Work
Number
1

Name
Sue
Location
Home
Number
2

Name
John
Location
Travel
Number
10

and so on. Can this script be modified to do it?
Thanks!

I was using HTTPS and IE does not cache these files.

I found the solution on a comment by Brandon K at http://uk.php.net/header.

He says:

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I just lost six hours of my life trying to use the following method to send a PDF file via PHP to Internet Explorer 6:

When using SSL, Internet Explorer will prompt with the Open / Save dialog, but then says “The file is currently unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later.” After much searching I became aware of the following MSKB Article titled “Internet Explorer file downloads over SSL do not work with the cache control headers” (KBID: 323308)

PHP.INI by default uses a setting: session.cache_limiter = nocache which modifies Content-Cache and Pragma headers to include “nocache” options. You can eliminate the IE error by changing “nocache” to “public” or “private” in PHP.INI — This will change the Content-Cache header as well as completely remove the Pragma header. If you cannot or do not want to modify PHP.INI for a site-wide fix, you can send the following two headers to overwrite defaults:

You will still need to set the content headers as listed above for this to work. Please note this problem ONLY effects Internet Explorer, while Firefox does not exhibit this flawed behavior.
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Well.. at least he only lost 6 hours…

You won’t be able to do that if the mysql server doesn’t have access to the filesystem of course…