Re: PHP excel capability

On Wed, April 18, 2007 10:46 am, Jonathan Kahan wrote: > Can PHP be used to generate an excel file that A) Contains Macros B) > Allows > Graphics to be attached C) where cells can contain borders as well as > cells > being merged. I know there is some PHP excel functionality so i am > assume > basics like underlines, italics and i am hoping vertical alignments > can be > done. If it's running under Windows, you could probably fire up Excel as a COM object and do anything Excel can do. As for the excel-writer package[s] "out there" you'd probably find out faster/accurate-er by researching them in their documentation or their own forums rather than here. > If the answer is no, then can a template that has all of these be > opened and > read using php where all that needs to be done is simply place in > certain > cells whatever values it is that I want to place. Possibly. Another option might be to have PHP spit out CSV and have an excel macro/scripty thing to suck in the CSV and fill in the cells like a mail-merge. I have to ASSUME Excel has something like that feature, somewhere in that mess of dialogs, after all these years... > Lastly, do only newer versions of PHP contain excel/pdf functionality? libPDF has been around for a lonnnnnnng time. Like I think I was using it in PHP3 days. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?