Re: FN-FORUM: PHP generate xls

date posted 30th October 2007 16:50



[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
Installing excel on a server allows you to get at the COM object and do
stuff directly using api calls. This can be used quite successfully.