Hi Neill,
don't wonder 'bout the lack of sites. You are entering
commercial area with using Excel.

If you are heading for heavy use you might want to take
look at BiffWriter

http://www.web-aware.com/biff/

It does write Excel files directly without the overhead of 
COM (and Excel itself, for that matter). BiffWriter is a
PHP class free for strictly personal use. Any other use
is subject to a license agreement.

There are some heavy limits using COM with Excel data,
mainly the lack of support for multidimensional variant
arrays by PHP COM. These are heavily used by the
Excel object to expose various things, namely cell ranges.

If COM is essential for any reason I can send you an
example script reading and writing excel spreadsheet 
data.

Regards,
-- 
Sven

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> Betreff:      [PHP-WIN] PHP, COM and Excel
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> Dear All,
> 
> Does anyone have any information on using COM in PHP to build Excel
> spreadsheets?  I have a potential need and can't find any sites specific to
> this task.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Neil Morgan MSc
> Admin Computing, University of Brighton, 01273 643930
> http://www.brighton.ac.uk/
> 
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