sbeam wrote: > Anyone have experience with parsing .xls files in PHP? Don't want COM > objects - and we just need the data, by worksheet->row->column and not > the formatting. It would need to parse and execute any formulas found > in a cell. We've found the following products and are leaning towards > the first but if there are better options or gotchas would love to > know: > > http://www.softclub.org/excelexplorer/ > http://paggard.com/projects/xls.reader/ > http://www.webtoolup.com/products/index.php?s=1&p=32 > http://sourceforge.net/projects/xlreader/ > > thanks > If Excel is anything like Word, then you've gotta be careful with any "scripted" option. M$ likes to "quick save" the latest changes to a file *at the end* of the file. This means that the actual data may not appear in the order you're expecting it to. Is there any reason why you can't save the file as a .csv formatted file? -- Michael Pemberton evolt at mpember.net.au