Re: [PHP] Excel Spreadsheets and PHP

Bastien Koert wrote:
> You can also create an htnl table and excel will happily handle that as well.
> 
> The real trick is to get IE to accept the stream as a file download. I
> find that I need to save the file first and the push the file down.
> 

+1 this approach; Excel is HTTP aware and you can simply plumb in the
URL of an HTML table and excel will do the rest; it works v well; saves
tonnes of work and means you can do nice little things like importing
SPARQL over HTTP queries straight in to excel - and then make nice pivot
[1] views of the data, all in a couple of minutes.

[1] http://www.getpivot.com/