Re: FN-FORUM: PHP generate xls

date posted 30th October 2007 16:19

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 04:34:10PM -0000, Anthony Cartmell wrote:
>
> >I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to generate spread sheets with
> >separate work sheets using PHP, I've read a little about using COM,
> >but wondered if there was a way without having office (excel)
> >installed on the server.
>
> The latest Office (2007) file format is XML, so that should make it
> possible, if not easy.

ROTFL!

Have you look at the spec ? A 6,000 page PDF that is: incomplete; refers to
other things that are not specified; self-contradictory; ...
I have read about people trying to do it -- and having great problems.

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