Re: FN-FORUM: PHP generate xls

date posted 30th October 2007 16:53

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 05:29:11PM -0000, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
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> I'd go with the XML solution too rather any of the third party (ie non-ms)
> components.

How many people run office 2007 ? Most don't so you will be producing something
that most people cannot read.

What is wrong with non-ms components ?

> Running Excel on the server is asking for trouble, apart from anything else,

Correct. But excel is not the only program capable of generating .xls (or other)
spreadsheets.

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