Re: Generating an Excel file?
| From: | Greg Donald | Date: | Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:00:07 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Generating an Excel file? | ||
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Ben Ramsey wrote:
| I'm pretty sure I know how to use header() create a CSV file for a
| client to download data from a database, but I think it would really
| impress this client if I could generate a Microsoft Excel file instead
| of a CSV file. Anyone know how to do this?
We get this request from clients at work quite often. Most people don't
realize .csv files are Excel friendly. Just make the data comma
delimited and name it .csv. It'll work.
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