I am really hoping you might be able to help me because I'm not sure where else to turn. I am trying to extract information from an Oracle database into an Excel Spreadsheet for individuals to view and I think I'm lost.
Project: When someone logs into an admin area of a site, they would like to click on a link that says "Get Data" and when clicked on, I would like for an excel file to be created with the necessary information. Below is the Perl file I've written to accomplish this task and well it doesn't work. I would prefer not to use a module if possible because I do not own the server and asking someone to install it would be very difficult. In advance, thanks for any help you can offer! I'm desperate! CODE: #!/afs/isis.unc.edu/pkg/perl-582/bin/perl use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::FromDB; use Spread sheet::WriteExcel::FromDB::Query; my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle:oracle.xxx.xxx",'username','password', { RaiseError => 0, AutoCommit => 0, LongReadLen => 16384 } ) || &do_error("Logging in to database: $DBI::errstr"); $query = q{'SELECT dateadded, totalpeople, miles, totalsaved FROM OWNER.Conference ORDER BY dateadded'}; my $ss = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::FromDB->read($dbh, $query); # my $ss = Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::FromDB->read($dbh, $Owner.Conference); # $ss->include_columns(dateadded, totalpeople, miles, totalsaved); print $ss->write_xls('savings.xls');