You could make life really simple and write csv document (excel loves those
as long as you handle the data right)force the file to download with the
additional add-type header set to vnd/ms-excel and excel opens it up
automagically...much simpler, no?
we do this for (gasp) asp data to excel all the time
bastien
From: Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP-DB] Re: [PEAR] Pear installation error
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 21:01:29 +0200
On 8 Oct 2004 17:03:15 -, Kevin Kraeer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I'm a one man band working for an ad agency...good times. At any rate, a
client has requested that form values submitted through their website be
written to an excel document.
I investigated and decided PEAR was probably my best bet (there's an
excel
writer module if I understand correctly). So, I began what has become a
quest to successfully install PEAR to our staging server.
It's a Win2K Server running IIS and PHP 4.3.6. Whoever initially
installed
PHP 4 did not install PEAR along with it for some reason. So I decided
to
run the command line installer, with the following directories set up:
Installation prefix - C:\PHP\pear
Binaries Directory - $prefix\bin
PHP code directory - $ prefix\docs
Documentation base directory - $prefix\docs
Data Base Directory - $prefix\data
Tests Directory - $prefix\tests
php.exe Path - C:\PHP\php.exe
I then run the installer, and it does fine for a while. Then, after
'Extracting Installer' appears I get this:
Warning: main(PEAR.php): failed to open stream: No such file or
directory
in C:\PHP\pear\Archive\Tar.php on line 21
Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'PEAR.php'
(include_path='/C:\DOCUME~1\ADMIN~1.ORB\LOCALS~1\Temp\3\gop1c.tmp') in
C:\PHP\pear\Archive\Tar.php on line 21
So it seems pretty clear that it's an include path problem to me. In my
PHP.ini, go-pear added
include_path=.;C:\php\pear
So maybe I need to change that to someplace else? But I'm also not so
sure
about that forward slash in front of 'C:\DOCUME~`.'
Any ideas or advice would be greatly appreciated. As I said, I'm on a
solo
mission over here - no IT guys, no programming dept. Just ME. heh.
This is probably going to get me flamed terribly, or rather completely
ignored...
If it is just you, why on earth don't you upgrade to a real operating
system? *nix + apache[1-2] + php is go beautifully together..., won't
cost you anything in licencing (assuming you don't get a proprietary
unix), and is much less likely to be troubled by viruses and
whatnot... I say this because usually the installation of these three
packages is done with about 5 clicks, and gets configured pretty much
by itself (of course, if you want security and stuff, you have to
change the config, but I am sure that is not different to IIS...).
Just a suggestion.
Cheers
Antoine
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