You can write "excel" files (ie files that excel associates with, if you have it) very
easily
by just using a .csv extension, and the following type format:
"field1", "field2", "field3"
(ie print "\"field1\",\"field2\",\"field3\""; )
Excel will display this as if it were a "spreadsheet".
If you need to get more fancy than this, you could create something to write .dif files
(again, a text based format.)
Ken
* Jonathan Hilgeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010522 10:16]:
> Hi Russ,
> Try this package:
> http://phpclasses.upperdesign.com/browse.html/package/237
>
> You need to register for free to gain access, but this package is supposed
> to write Excel binary files.
>
> Jonathan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russ Michell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 5:01 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PHP-DB] web to access/excel
>
>
> *****Apologies for cross-postings******
>
> Hi there all:
>
> Does anyone know of a product - preferably free, that once
> installed, can take info from an ordinary HTML web based form and
> drop it into an access/excel database/spreadsheet?? or a
> pre-defined/written script or class written for Apache/php4/MySQL that
> has the information filtering and sorting capabilites of excel/access??
>
> One of our departments urgently requires such functionality to increase
> processing times of student enquiries. At present the information from
> the students is in a non-standardised format in the form of an email
> that has to be processed by hand.
>
> The data needs to be formalised from a structured online form, and
> inserted into an access/excel type 'environment' that current
> (non-web technical) administrators are familliar with.
>
> Any suggestions are most welcome.
>
> Again I apologise for the cross posting but this is a pressing matter,
> that requires I find a pointer to a solution, or an actual solution
> as fast as I can!
>
> Kind regards:
> Russ
>
>
>
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