Re: FN-FORUM: PHP generate xls

date posted 30th October 2007 16:36

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 05:19:56PM -0000, Ben Johnson F wrote:
>
> > The typical way I've seen this done is to generate CSV rather than XLS,
> > as this is easy to generate from any scripting language and is much
> > less of a resource hog than instantiating Office components, etc.
>
> Note that you'll need to set the correct file-type HTTP header etc from your
> scripting language - if this is of interest to someone, let me know and I'll
> post sample ASP code.

He said that he was using PHP:

header("Content-type: text/xml");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=MeetingReport.xml");

It *really* is easy with PEAR.

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