Exporting a MySQL table to Excel

Question

My users have asked for the ability to download a MySQL table to an Excel spreadsheet. Being an amateur at all this PHP stuff I googled around and found a script that is supposed to do this. It's failing with "Couldn't select database: Access denied for user 'holli10_tonybabb'@'%' to database '_admin' 1044"
It seems to be picking up an extra "@%" from somewhere
I used the same settings that I successfully used for a CRON backup job.. I'd really appreciate any insight you can suggest. The script is shown below,
Thanks
Tony
<?php
//EDIT YOUR MySQL Connection Info:
$DB_Server = "209.200.244.80";  //your MySQL Server
$DB_Username = "holli10_tonybabb";     //your MySQL User Name
$DB_Password = "abcd1234";    //your MySQL Password
$DB_DBName = "_admin";    //your MySQL Database Name
$DB_TBLName = "volunteers";    //your MySQL Table Name
//$DB_TBLName,  $DB_DBName, may also be commented out & passed to the browser
//as parameters in a query string, so that this code may be easily reused for
//any MySQL table or any MySQL database on your server
//DEFINE SQL QUERY:
//you can use just about ANY kind of select statement you want -
//edit this to suit your needs!
$sql = "Select * from $DB_TBLName";
//Optional: print out title to top of Excel or Word file with Timestamp
//for when file was generated:
//set $Use_Titel = 1 to generate title, 0 not to use title
$Use_Title = 1;
//define date for title: EDIT this to create the time-format you need
$now_date = date('m-d-Y H:i');
//define title for .doc or .xls file: EDIT this if you want
$title = "Dump For Table $DB_TBLName from Database $DB_DBName on $now_date";
Leave the connection info below as it is:
just edit the above.
(Editing of code past this point recommended only for advanced users.)
//create MySQL connection
$Connect = @mysql_connect($DB_Server, $DB_Username, $DB_Password)
or die("Couldn't connect to MySQL:<br>" . mysql_error() . "<br>" . mysql_errno());
//select database
$Db = @mysql_select_db($DB_DBName, $Connect)
or die("Couldn't select database:<br>" . mysql_error(). "<br>" . mysql_errno());
//execute query
$result = @mysql_query($sql,$Connect)
or die("Couldn't execute query:<br>" . mysql_error(). "<br>" . mysql_errno());
//if this parameter is included ($w=1), file returned will be in word format ('.doc')
//if parameter is not included, file returned will be in excel format ('.xls')
if (isset($w) && ($w==1))
$file_type = "msword";
$file_ending = "doc";
}else {
$file_type = "vnd.ms-excel";
$file_ending = "xls";
//header info for browser: determines file type ('.doc' or '.xls')
header("Content-Type: application/$file_type");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=database_dump.$file_ending");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");
/* Start of Formatting for Word or Excel */
if (isset($w) && ($w==1)) //check for $w again
/* FORMATTING FOR WORD DOCUMENTS ('.doc')   */
//create title with timestamp:
if ($Use_Title == 1)
  echo("$title\n\n");
//define separator (defines columns in excel & tabs in word)
$sep = "\n"; //new line character
while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
  //set_time_limit(60); // HaRa
  $schema_insert = "";
  for($j=0; $j<mysql_num_fields($result);$j++)
  //define field names
  $field_name = mysql_field_name($result,$j);
  //will show name of fields
  $schema_insert .= "$field_name:\t";
   if(!isset($row[$j])) {
    $schema_insert .= "NULL".$sep;
   elseif ($row[$j] != "") {
    $schema_insert .= "$row[$j]".$sep;
   else {
    $schema_insert .= "".$sep;
  $schema_insert = str_replace($sep."$", "", $schema_insert);
  $schema_insert .= "\t";
  print(trim($schema_insert));
  //end of each mysql row
  //creates line to separate data from each MySQL table row
  print "\n----------------------------------------------------\n";
}else{
/* FORMATTING FOR EXCEL DOCUMENTS ('.xls')   */
//create title with timestamp:
if ($Use_Title == 1)
  echo("$title\n");
//define separator (defines columns in excel & tabs in word)
$sep = "\t"; //tabbed character
//start of printing column names as names of MySQL fields
for ($i = 0; $i < mysql_num_fields($result); $i++)
  echo mysql_field_name($result,$i) . "\t";
print("\n");
//end of printing column names
//start while loop to get data
while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
  //set_time_limit(60); // HaRa
  $schema_insert = "";
  for($j=0; $j<mysql_num_fields($result);$j++)
   if(!isset($row[$j]))
    $schema_insert .= "NULL".$sep;
   elseif ($row[$j] != "")
    $schema_insert .= "$row[$j]".$sep;
   else
    $schema_insert .= "".$sep;
  $schema_insert = str_replace($sep."$", "", $schema_insert);
  //following fix suggested by Josue (thanks, Josue!)
  //this corrects output in excel when table fields contain \n or \r
  //these two characters are now replaced with a space
  $schema_insert = preg_replace("/\r\n|\n\r|\n|\r/", " ", $schema_insert);
  $schema_insert .= "\t";
  print(trim($schema_insert));
  print "\n";
?>
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Answer 1

Never mind. The web hosting support people people told me I had my parameters wrong. It works fine now.