Re: Read/write Excel spread*** libraries

gcook wrote:

> Are there any commonly used PHP libraries for reading/writing Excel
> spreadsheets? We're rewriting an old perl app into php. The perl app
> was previously using Spread***::WriteExcel, we need to duplicate the
> functionality.

If you're using Windows you can use Com to read Excel:
http://forums.devarticles.com/archive/t-9352/php-read-excel

There's a PEAR package for writing Excel spreadsheets:
http://pear.php.net/package/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer

Another one for writing spreadsheets is here:
http://www.cnovak.com/biff/index.htm

I've used the last one myself and it makes it very easy to create
spreadsheets. It used to be free but now seems to be very expensive.

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