Posted by Hemanth on 11/02/05 01:25

Hello there,

Could someone pls give me pointers (or examples) on how to use PHP
(installed on a linux) to read & write MS Excel spreadsheets. So far
I've been converting a spreadsheet to text (as tab separated values)
and processing the text file. I'm wondering if I can avoid this step
and process the .xls file directly.

I found a thread in this group - related to this topic - but it says,
MS excel needs to be installed on target machine to use PHP's COM. I
assume he's talking about PHP running on windows target machine. How
can I use a similar approach on linux machine?

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.php/browse_frm/thread/1db1f1235e00344/8300071ba2b4434e?q=reading+excel&rnum=1#8300071ba2b4434e

Any help is appreciated.

Regards,
Hemanth

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