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Hey there! Thanks for visiting. I’m leaving this content intact, but I’m blogging at http://conjurecode.com now. Hope to see you there. I recently needed the ability to export data from my application in CSV format in my CakePHP application. It didn’t need to be anything fancy, mostly just a dump from a given model, which the customer could open in Excel. I’ve written it in an abstracted way. This fairly simple function takes a model name and an array of fields which should be excluded from the output, and delivers a CSV file. Rather than allow the function to be accessed...