RE: FN-FORUM: PHP generate xls

date posted 30th October 2007 20:46

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

You don't need Office 2007, converters are available for older versions of
Excel.

- What is wrong with non-ms components ?
They don't actually know the XLS file format in most cases, they can
purchase the file spec, but very few of them do.

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

True, and if you don't need to run any components at all and can just drop
out some XML then that is far better IMHO.