Jim Lucas wrote:
> abderrazzak nejeoui wrote:
>> can you help me to export data to a ms excel file using php. i tried to
>> export them to an html format and change the extension to .xls that's work
>> but i have lost the formatting
>>
>> excel and the navigator doesn't interpret my code in the same why (celles
>> are not in the same size)
>>
> 
> Ok, so with the examples of others here, here is the shortest example that I 
> came up with that
> should get you going.
> 
> <?php
> 
> header("Content-Type:  application/vnd.ms-excel");
> header("Expires: 0");
> header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
> 
> $x = $y = range(0, 12);
> 
> echo '<table>';
> 
> echo '<tr><td> </td><td>' . join('</td><td>', $x) . '</td></tr>';
> 
> foreach ( $x AS $xx ) {
>       echo "<tr><td>{$xx}</td>";
>       foreach ( $y AS $yy ) {
>               echo "<td>=sum(".(chr(ord('b')+$yy))."1*a".($xx+2).")</td>";
>       }
>       echo "</tr>";
> }
> echo '</table>';
> 
> ?>
> 
> This will output a 14x14 table.  It will calculate the totals for each cell 
> in the actual
> spreadsheet once excel loads it.
> 
> If you have any questions, ask away.
> 

Note: as mentioned in one of the articles, you have to change the script name 
to .xls and have PHP
parse the .xls file, otherwise IE will not render correctly.

-- 
Jim Lucas

   "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness,
       and some have greatness thrust upon them."

Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V
    by William Shakespeare

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