On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Dell Sala wrote:

> Hi Nelly,
>
> Have you looked into PEAR's Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer? I haven't used
> it myself, but perhaps you can have more control over cell types if
> you generate a native excel file rather than a csv file.
>
> http://pear.php.net/package/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer

Deja vu all over again (-:  Yes, it works good.

Though I found that if I used writeRow() with a row of data right out of a
db table (with stuff like lastname, firstname, ..., zipcode), I had
exactly the same issue you're trying to solve, i.e., the zips were treated
as numeric types. I had to use writeString() to make it a string. It was
little clumsy but it worked.

---
David Mintz
http://davidmintz.org/

En Nueva York el tr?nsito de la belleza a la desolaci?n sucede
siempre expeditivamente, como si el principio universal
de m?xima eficiencia hubiera aconsejado la supresi?n de
gradaciones intermedias.

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