[thelist] Formatting cells in Excel from HTML/PHP
Joe Lance
JLance at humboldtbank.com
Mon Mar 10 11:33:01 CST 2003
Try biffWriter. http://www.web-aware.com/biff/
It should meet all your needs and is php based.
Just starting using it myself, its pretty slick.
HTH,
Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Baratta [mailto:Anthony at Baratta.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 9:22 AM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] Formatting cells in Excel from HTML/PHP
At 09:08 AM 3/9/2003, Andrew Finger wrote:
>Is there a way to format cells in an Excel spreadsheet created through a
web
>page driven with PHP code? I've generated the spreadsheet, but I'd like to
>format cells for currency and align other cells with the decimal point to
>make the spreadsheet pleasing to the eye. So, for instance, does anyone
>know if there is a cell-by-cell command I can type to format each cell?
>This way I could automate the formatting in the web page and not do it
>manually.
Not unless you can write a binary compatible Excel file. I've had success
with an Excel COM object from Software Artisans, but that is a Windows only
solution.
http://excelwriter.softartisans.com/default.aspx?PageID=8
I don't know of any other solution out there.
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Anthony Baratta
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