Posted by Geoff Muldoon on 10/29/06 22:37

luiheidsgoeroe@hotmail.com says...
> Rob Coventry wrote:
> > Is it possible to read cells from an Excel spreadsheet, and what is
> > the code for this?
>
> Mor complicated: only on Windows, with OLE compatible COM class:
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.com.php
>
> If you're not on a Windows server, there have been several tries with
> reverse-engineering, none of which really satisfy.

For read (only) as opposed to read/write, I have for some time been using
a class that seems to work perfectly well on Apache/PHP/Linux.

http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=22092&group_id=99160

Geoff M

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