RE: [PHP] Anyone scripted Crossover?
| From: | Edward Kay | Date: | Wed, 06 Jun 2007 13:53:43 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Anyone scripted Crossover? | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Pitcher [mailto:george.pitcher@ingenta.com]
> Sent: 06 June 2007 14:34
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: RE: [PHP] Anyone scripted Crossover?
>
>
> Tijnema,
>
> > > Nothing found in the archive, so asking the question: has
> > anyone done any
> > > scripting of Crossover to control MS Office applications on Linux?
> > >
> > > I would love to move to Linux, but have some apps that create
> > MS Word docs
> > > and some doing Excel parsing.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > George in Edinburgh/Oxford
> >
> > Can't you use some OpenOffice.org tools for that? OOo can open all
> > kind of MS Word and Excel documents.
>
> So, can I create a '*.doc' file on a Linux box? And can I read
> the data from
> an Excel spreadsheet to parse into a MySQL db?
>
> If so, can anyone point me in the right direction for examples etc?
>
> Cheers
>
> George in Edinburgh/Oxford
> ======
If you want to parse .doc and .xls files with a script under Linux, look at
catdoc and xls2csv:
http://www.45.free.net/~vitus/software/catdoc/
Edward