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

How is it installable by pear? I found nothing in there page about
installing via pear.

2011/4/17 Alexey Borzov <[email protected]>:
> 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.
>
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