Hi I used the I used the sfPhpExcelPlugin-1.0.2.zip from the
http://www.symfony-project.org/plugins/sfPhpExcelPlugin/1_0_2 In this I used this both for creating an excel file and downloading the same using PHP. Also I used the same for uploading an excel file and then reading the contents of the excel file. Regards Deepak Bhatia On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Gareth McCumskey <gmccums...@gmail.com>wrote: > With just plain old PHP and even some Javascript built in this is actually > very difficult if not impossible to do as PHP was never designed to interact > with a users PC. Javascript was however designed to run client-side but does > not have direct access to a users hard drive for obvious security reasons. > The only way you may get past this is to use another plugin. I am not sure > which plugin would be useful, perhaps Flash, but as far as I know even Java > (not Javascript) cannot do this (but I stand to be corrected on that). You > may also want to look into Google Gears (which I have not yet used). The > problem with these scenarios is that you will need the user to download a > plugin for their browser. > > Essentially, the easiest way is to let them upload, the changes are made by > PHP, then PHP prompts the user to re-download the changed file. > > Regards > > Gareth McCumskey > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "bibijosh" <dorothee.arno...@gmail.com> > To: "symfony users" <symfony-users@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 7:02:43 PM GMT +02:00 Harare / Pretoria > Subject: [symfony-users] Open an Excel file > > Hi, I'm quite new to Symfony, and not really good at php in the first > place. So if someone could give me a hand here. > > Here is what my website does for now : > - Open an explorer window so the user can upload an excel file > - Modify that file > - Save it on my server. > > Here is what I would like to do : > - Open an explorer window so the user can upload an excel file > - Modify that file AND THEN open it in an Excel Window. (I can only > manage to display it in my webpage, which doesn't look good at all, > I heard it could be because of the mime type actions...) > AND/OR > - Save it on the user's computer, where it was first uploaded from, > without the user having to do anything. > > I'll welcome any advice. > > I'm using php5, Symfony 1.0 and IE 6 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "symfony users" group. > To post to this group, send email to symfony-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<symfony-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "symfony users" group. > To post to this group, send email to symfony-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<symfony-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en. > > > >--
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