Re: [PEAR] Re: [pear-webmaster] Spreadsheet Excel Writer

Hi Christian,

On 17.04.2011 12:29, Christian Weiske wrote:
>> I'm a PHP developer and I've been trying to use Spreadsheet Excel
>> Writer to generate reports in the company I work. [...]
>> I want to generate an Excel file with 13 columns and about 2.000 rows,
>> filled with strings that can be a little large (it's a database with
>> names and addresses). When I try to do it, the browser says that it's
>> not possible to find the file. I've done some tests and the problem
>> only happens when the file has more than 920 rows.
>
> Do you get an error? Look in the error log of your web server, I
> suspect there is something about a memory limit error.
>
> Also, please use the "pear-general" list for such questions.

Speaking of Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer, it is currently unsupported and the 
developers who recently tried to support it gave up.

There is, however, a modern supported PHPExcel package 
(http://phpexcel.codeplex.com/). It is installable by PEAR installer, too.

I suggest adding some visible pointer from S_E_W's page to PHPExcel, for now 
literally thousands of people in need of Excel generating package are 
downloading unsupported package with dozens of known bugs and zero chance of 
them being fixed. This does not help PEAR's image, I think.