Re: Competitive Class: Excel_File

On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Xavier Noguer wrote: This is allready here, so I guess Xavier didn't receive any of my replies. > I noticed there is already a class intended for this in CVS (being written > by Mika Tuupola), but as far as I can tell it's not yet working (I tested it My problem ATM is the time. I have a TODO list on the File_Excel class but just haven't had time to go on with it. So if others want, File_Excel can be nuked and move Spreadsheet_Excel in. _BUT_, > with StarOffice 5.2), and doesn't have the advantage of following the exact > same class hierarchy of Spreadsheet::WriteExcel (at least I consider it to be > an advantage). I really don't find this an advantage. I find it more confusing, and not quite PHP like. Main reason why I started splitting different items into different classes was to achieve good object oriented design with classes of manageable size. This is what I personally would like to see in PEAR. Then again, File_Excel is still far away from being completed, and don't know when I have time to dig into it again (those binary Excel files are a bitch to debug. Excel just crashes when something is not correct ;) -- Mika Tuupola http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/