Reading Excelfiles with PHP

[Erwin Moller]

Hi group,

Is it possible to read the content of Excelfiles with PHP?
I mean of course the rows and columns, not the binary-read of the file. :-)

I know a CSV-export is a possebility, but that is unwanted.

TIA!

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[CountScubula]

"Erwin Moller"
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Hi group,

Is it possible to read the content of Excelfiles with PHP?
I mean of course the rows and columns, not the binary-read of the file. :-)
I know a CSV-export is a possebility, but that is unwanted.

TIA!

Regards,
Erwin Moller

reading any type of file is possible, you just need to know the internal
format of said file, just google it, and then parse away :)

--
Mike Bradley
http://www.gzentools.com -- free online php tools

[Dan Tripp]

CountScubula wrote:

"Erwin Moller"
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Hi group,

Is it possible to read the content of Excelfiles with PHP?
I mean of course the rows and columns, not the binary-read of the file.

:-)

I know a CSV-export is a possebility, but that is unwanted.

TIA!

Regards,
Erwin Moller

reading any type of file is possible, you just need to know the internal
format of said file, just google it, and then parse away :)

--
Mike Bradley
http://www.gzentools.com -- free online php tools

If you choose to go that route, here's a link to OpenOffice's take on
the .xls file:
http://sc.openoffice.org/excelfileformat.pdf

Regards,

- Dan
dantripp.com

[Erwin Moller]

Thanks for your reply's

I was more hoping somebody else made some friendly readingroutine.
I have the feeling I am not the first who wants to read excel-content in
php...

Thanks for the OO link, i'll use that!

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[Nikolai Chuvakhin]

Erwin Moller <si******************************************@spam yourself.com>
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Is it possible to read the content of Excelfiles with PHP?

There are at least three file formats that different versions
of Excel have used since 1995 on Windows alone; I have no clue
what has been happening with Excel file formats on Macintosh.
This said, there are some PHP scripts that can read Excel files;
you should check out PEAR (http://pear.php.net/) and PHP Classes
(http://phpclasses.org/).

Cheers,
NC