I've decided to put something in here as it took me an age to find out how I could do it. This is when using a MySQL query within a PHP script.  The process is used often to do a statistics table or top ten chart of your data (eg.…

 I'm beginning a list as I've just spent an age trying to get PHP output to create a text file.  Then my client showed me how she then opens the text file in Excel, so I said we could get the script to do that instead.