Posted by Gordon Burditt on 10/09/41 11:25

>I am right now learning PHP & want to know if there is a way to send
>web form data to an Excel sheet located on a network. My windows xp PC
>doesnot have a copy of Excel. Also i am not connected to the internet,
>its a local computer.

If you don't have a (legal) copy of Excel, you don't have a license
to create Excel spreadsheets.

>What i am trying to do is to make a PHP script which will send a simple
>form data to an excel sheet (or create a new Excel sheet) on another PC
>on a network.

You could create a file which can be imported into Excel (for
example, in .csv format, which, if you've got the data, shouldn't
be too hard to create).

>Since i am not connected to the internet, i will not be able to send an
>email (anyway, sendmail is not available on Windows OS), nor do i have
>any server on windows.

What *DO* you have in the way of communication between the two systems?
A shared file system? A browser on one computer and a web server with
PHP on another?

>Is it possible to send form data to Excel sheet on local computer? Even
>my PC is a local PC. Some one was saying its possible thru Windows
>Scheduler.

Gordon L. Burditt

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