Re: Google Summer of Code

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Christian Schmidt <lists@chsc.dk> wrote: > Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson wrote: > > Would be cool to have in PEAR, PHP 5 stuff :-) Would mean Christian > would > > have to make a OLE2 tho (something you'd be interested in doing > Christian ?) > Hmm, well, I guess I could to a quick PHP5 upgrade, if there was enough > interest. But it is not one of my own priorities. > > The PEAR OLE package has been included in the PHPExcel project (under > their original license) and converted to PHP5, so perhaps these files > could be used as a starting point if anyone else is interested. But it > really is just a simple conversion from e.g. "var $foo" to "private > $foo" etc. > Not much point if it's just sugar stuff (var to private or so), I would have imagined there were some PHP 5 things that could help enhance this lib but I guess it could be so simple the sugar thing is the only thing required. > > Is the OLE package something we should hang on to, the concept, if we do > a > > excel writer PHP 5 thing ? > I think so, yes (.xls files only, .xlsx are based on ZIP files instead). > First of all, the OLE format is not specific to Excel but are also used > by other MS software; second, AFAIK the reader and writer are just > reading or writing streams, so it would probably be best to keebp the > OLE parsing and the Excel parsing separate with a stream wrapper as > interface. > Yeah I knew about the OLE not being only excel, you answered my question very nicely with the later part of your sentence. > > I'd like to see a PHP 5 project for the writer, maintenance project > would be > > hard to get in I think, the way I see it David and Christian could > mentor it > > since they have an understanding on the OLE [...] > I only know about the OLE format and almost nothing about the Excel > format itself, so I can only really help with general PHP advice. Knowing OLE might be beneficial for this project, who knows, at least there is nothing in the rules that says a project can't have 2 mentors David being more excel oriented and you knowing about the OLE, to me it sounds like a good combo. - Helgi