[nflug] PHP Excel File Class

[Justin Bennett]

I'll play with it, I'm not too concered about version, I'm using CSV 
files now. Just want my leading zeros to come in at the moment. I'm sure 
If I start writing native excel the user requests will start to become 
another issue. :)

Justin Bennett
Network Administrator
Dynabrade, Inc.
8989 Sheridan Dr.
Clarence, NY 14031
 



Mike Richardson wrote:
> Justin Bennett wrote:
>   
>> I'm looking for a class for PHP that will allow me to create native
>> Excel documents as streaming output. I'm using CSV now, but It's
>> beginning to be a pain with leading zero's and such.
>>
>>    I've seem Biffwritter, It states I need to install the Zend Optimizer
>> (I assume it's compiled PHP), that's not really my preference. I'm not
>> really looking to mess with a COM interface.
>>     
>
> Justin (and others),
>
> 	We've started to play with php_writeexcel, which is an almost complete
> port of the Perl Spreadsheet::WriteExcel module. The doc for the PHP
> version is severely lacking, but for the most part the CPAN doc is
> accurate (I've discovered a few of the missing functions via
> trial-and-error). Just realize that this software generates Excel v.5
> binary .xls files.
>
> php_writeexcel homepage:
> http://www.bettina-attack.de/jonny/view.php/projects/php_writeexcel/
>
> Spreadsheet::WriteExcel on CPAN:
> http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/Spreadsheet-WriteExcel
>
> There's another package that generates XML-formatted spreadsheets, but I
> haven't tried it at all - mainly because php_writeexcel has all the
> functionality I needed for my projects.
>
> One of the biggest problems I ran into using this program involved
> Internet Explorer and corrupted header handling when sessions were
> involved. If you need any help with getting around it, let me know.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
>   
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