RE: [PHP] PHP excel capability

On Wed, April 18, 2007 3:42 pm, Zoltán Németh wrote: >> Or you can use COM as Jay recommended, but that requires Excel to be >> installed on the PC that's running PHP and can get a little ugly. > > really? I thought it requires only winsuxx to be installed... COM only requires Windows (afaik there's no Linux COM...) but if you want the COM module to *do* something it has to interact with some other program/dll... Like if you want it to interact with Excel to make it do anything Excel can do (that you can find docs on or figure out from the COM object layout) then you kinda have to have Excel for it to interact with to do Excel. PHP+COM is kinda like a PHP link-loader for DLLs, basically... That's probably a gross over-simplification, but it's how I think of it. -- 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?