Re: reading excell and writing to text file..

[snip] I was wondering a good place I could get started on reading excel spreadsheets in PHP ive seen a couple of things out there that will take data from the web and transform it into a .xls file. I was wondering if I could take a XLS file with php and read it, and rip out certain data from it :-) but just knowing how to read it to the screen would be enough to get me going. Thanks! [/snip] you could use the excel com object if you are on windows http://fi.php.net/manual/en/ref.com.php I know there is a pear package to write excel files but not sure if there is one to read them yet. If you can use perl you can use Spreadsheet::ParseExcel, I have used it before and it works really well. http://search.cpan.org/~kwitknr/Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.2602/ParseExcel.pm