Excel Spreadsheets and PHP
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From: Ian Robertson on 26 Feb 2010 15:47 Thank you all very much for your replies. I learned about a few new approaches. I didn't see it come up yet, so I'll post the URL of what I have been using.. php_writeexcel - http://www.bettina-attack.de/jonny/view.php/projects/php_writeexcel/ I've been able to pull off quite a bit with this class and actually have referenced this Perl page for documentation since this PHP class was ported from a Perl class - http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/JMCNAMARA/Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-0.37/WriteExcel/doc/WriteExcel.html So, many thanks for your replies and also thanks to Johann and his 3 Bettinas, wherever you are, haha. -----Original Message----- From: Jay Blanchard [mailto:jblanchard(a)pocket.com] Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 9:44 PM To: Ian Robertson; php-general(a)lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP] Excel Spreadsheets and PHP [snip] What are you using, if anything, to create Excel spreadsheets with PHP? [/snip] PHP http://www.evolt.org/node/26896
From: Andrew Ballard on 1 Mar 2010 09:34
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Ian Robertson <irobertson(a)americantextile.com> wrote: > Thank you all very much for your replies. > > I learned about a few new approaches. > > I didn't see it come up yet, so I'll post the URL of what I have been using. > > php_writeexcel - http://www.bettina-attack.de/jonny/view.php/projects/php_writeexcel/ > > I've been able to pull off quite a bit with this class and actually have referenced this Perl page for documentation since this PHP class was ported from a Perl class - http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/JMCNAMARA/Spreadsheet-WriteExcel-0.37/WriteExcel/doc/WriteExcel.html > Another option just occurred to me. You can attach to and read/write to Excel sheets using an ODBC client. As long as you are building a sheet/workbook with strictly tabular data, that should allow you to issue SQL commands. I'm not sure whether you can create an Excel file from scratch that way, but if not it would be trivial to have an empty Excel file that you can use as a template. Andrew |