RE: FN-FORUM: PHP generate xls

date posted 30th October 2007 16:40

I'd go with the XML solution too rather any of the third party (ie non-ms)
components.

Running Excel on the server is asking for trouble, apart from anything else,
its a client application and was never intended to be used as a server
component which means it can do things like display modal dialogue boxes,
which will kinda mess things up a little.

James

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From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Anthony
Cartmell
Sent: 30 October 2007 16:35
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Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: PHP generate xls


> 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.

Anthony
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