RE: [PHP] Excel Spreadsheets and PHP

On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 15:36 -0500, Bob McConnell wrote:

> From: Ian Robertson
> 
> > What are you using, if anything, to create Excel spreadsheets with
> PHP?
> > 
> 
> Output CSV files with the correct MIME type. MS-Windows will open them
> in Excel by default in both IE and Firefox.
> 
> Unfortunately, this happens even if you have Open Office installed and
> would prefer to use that.
> 
> Bob McConnell
> 


I believe there are pear classes to output these files, and the new xlsx
format is XML-based so shouldnt be too difficult to output something
simple. Also, the ods format is well documented, and again should be
very easy to output to.

Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk