With regard to 4, what platform are you developing on? Matt Kosoy wrote: > Hello. > > I'm having a ton of problems trying to get cakephp to generate excel > files correctly, and I was wondering if anyone out there has any info/ > suggestions. > > So far I have tried the following: > > 1. Re-writing a class I found on phpclasses.org (http:// > phpclasses.promoxy.com/browse/package/2037.html) > this method generates the files correctly, but the problem is that > the xls files that are created do not open on Windows machines. This > class works perfect from outside of cakephp -- it's a shame. > > 2. I attempted to implement this helper: > http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/excel-xls-helper > using this method is ok, but for larger result sets (more than 100 > rows returned) "bad" files are created which can not be opened by > Excel on any platform. > > 3. The "Generate Excel spreadsheets from your database" method -- > http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/generate-excel-spreadsheets-from-your-database > > I can not make this method work for the life of me. With debugging > set to 0 the only result that's returned is complete gobbeldygook. > > 4. I have attempted to use PEAR's spreadsheet_excel_writer > module, but we are hitting an open_basedir error/warning. We're > trying to work that out right now. > > I can post code examples. Any help, suggestion, or advice would be > greatly appreciated. I'm tearing my eyeballs out over this. > > Thanks World!!!! > > -matt > > > > 4. Using the raw PEAR 'Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer' module -- this > method is producing an open_basedir warning/error, and we are > attempting to work out the problem with our server ppl.
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