Posted by Geoff Muldoon on 11/02/05 02:09

hemanth.singamsetty@gmail.com says...

> 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?

I found a couple of class files which allow you to read Excel format files
on any platform:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpexcelreader/

I had also considered another one:
http://paggard.com/projects/xls.reader/

Geoff M

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