RE: [PHP] Export to Excel
Easiest way is to export the data into comma-delimited format. (.csv files) Excel can import those no problem. So, you would write a php function that created a simple text file that looked like: Fieldname1,fieldname2,fieldname3 Data1,data2,data3 Etc. And excel can open that kind of file right up. Hth --kurt -Original Message- From: Jorge Alvarez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 9:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Export to Excel One of my clients is requesting me to export some data from PHP-generated pages to MS Excel files. I have no clue on how to do such export with PHP. I'm using PHP/Apache/Linux Mandrake. What options do I have? Your help is very appreciated. Regards, Jorge Alvarez -- Let your screen saver contribute to cancer research. http://members.ud.com/vypc/cancer/ A new way to help. Sponsored by Intel. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Export to Excel
You could try writing the data out to a comma seperated file, and then offer the file for download. Excel understands these files, and they are plaintext, therefore easy to create. Jason Bell Jorge Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... One of my clients is requesting me to export some data from PHP-generated pages to MS Excel files. I have no clue on how to do such export with PHP. I'm using PHP/Apache/Linux Mandrake. What options do I have? Your help is very appreciated. Regards, Jorge Alvarez -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP] Export to Excel
Dump to file as comma separated and then load into Excel. Excel reads comma separated files. In the file open dialog you can select file type to be .txt (csv). If you want to be really sick then you can set up an ODBC connection to a comma separated file and then use MSQuery inside Excel. Another alternative is to dump out your data to a webpage in an HTML table. Excel can link to the web page, just goto to Data-Get External Data-New Web Query. Select the URL and you're away. This is quite a cool feature as you don't have to send out updated files on a continual basis. Enjoy. -Original Message- From: Jorge Alvarez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 July 2001 17:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Export to Excel One of my clients is requesting me to export some data from PHP-generated pages to MS Excel files. I have no clue on how to do such export with PHP. I'm using PHP/Apache/Linux Mandrake. What options do I have? Your help is very appreciated. Regards, Jorge Alvarez -- Let your screen saver contribute to cancer research. http://members.ud.com/vypc/cancer/ A new way to help. Sponsored by Intel. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP] Export to Excel
Here's something I found on the PHP Code Exchange: Generate Excel files from PHP by Christian Novak on 2000-11-25 11:47:24 (v for 4.0) is 1974 bytes. Small function library to generate Excel files/stream directly from PHP. http://px.sklar.com/code.html?code_id=488 I haven't tried it out...it doesn't look terribly sophisticated but it might work. Brady Dump to file as comma separated and then load into Excel. Excel reads comma separated files. In the file open dialog you can select file type to be .txt (csv). If you want to be really sick then you can set up an ODBC connection to a comma separated file and then use MSQuery inside Excel. Another alternative is to dump out your data to a webpage in an HTML table. Excel can link to the web page, just goto to Data-Get External Data-New Web Query. Select the URL and you're away. This is quite a cool feature as you don't have to send out updated files on a continual basis. Enjoy. -Original Message- From: Jorge Alvarez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 13 July 2001 17:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] Export to Excel One of my clients is requesting me to export some data from PHP-generated pages to MS Excel files. I have no clue on how to do such export with PHP. I'm using PHP/Apache/Linux Mandrake. What options do I have? Your help is very appreciated. Regards, Jorge Alvarez -- Let your screen saver contribute to cancer research. http://members.ud.com/vypc/cancer/ A new way to help. Sponsored by Intel. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PHP] Export to Excel
Here's something I found on the PHP Code Exchange: Generate Excel files from PHP by Christian Novak on 2000-11-25 11:47:24 (v for 4.0) is 1974 bytes. Small function library to generate Excel files/stream directly from PHP. http://px.sklar.com/code.html?code_id=488 I haven't tried it out...it doesn't look terribly sophisticated but it might work. I just tried it and it didn't work. At least, not for Excel2k. It created an .xls file but it wasn't something that could be opened and read by my version of XL. Chris
Re: [PHP] Export to Excel
Interesting... I have excel2k, and it worked fine for me... The only thing i can think of is maybe some extra garbage you get when it generates the file... maybe headers? -- Aaron Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Boget, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Brady Hegberg' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jorge Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 11:33 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] Export to Excel Here's something I found on the PHP Code Exchange: Generate Excel files from PHP by Christian Novak on 2000-11-25 11:47:24 (v for 4.0) is 1974 bytes. Small function library to generate Excel files/stream directly from PHP. http://px.sklar.com/code.html?code_id=488 I haven't tried it out...it doesn't look terribly sophisticated but it might work. I just tried it and it didn't work. At least, not for Excel2k. It created an .xls file but it wasn't something that could be opened and read by my version of XL. Chris -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] Export to Excel
Hmm, I tried it, and my excel 2k could not read it either. I even change the echo to fwrite, and delete all the headers. What did you do to your source code? just copy it or did you modify it? Could you possibly send it to me off list? Thanks Reuben D. Budiardja On Friday 13 July 2001 01:36 pm, Aaron Bennett wrote: Interesting... I have excel2k, and it worked fine for me... The only thing i can think of is maybe some extra garbage you get when it generates the file... maybe headers? -- Aaron Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Boget, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Brady Hegberg' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jorge Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 11:33 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] Export to Excel Here's something I found on the PHP Code Exchange: Generate Excel files from PHP by Christian Novak on 2000-11-25 11:47:24 (v for 4.0) is 1974 bytes. Small function library to generate Excel files/stream directly from PHP. http://px.sklar.com/code.html?code_id=488 I haven't tried it out...it doesn't look terribly sophisticated but it might work. I just tried it and it didn't work. At least, not for Excel2k. It created an .xls file but it wasn't something that could be opened and read by my version of XL. Chris -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
