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[Phil Powell]

See below. >:(
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg" <adam at trachtenberg.com>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] PHP Excel Parser


> On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Phil Powell wrote:
>
> > Kinko's here is too expensive an option when you're unemployed, and the
> > western DC suburbs don't have public libraries you can find..
>
> http://www.mont.lib.md.us/branchinfo/map.asp
>

I live 20 - 25 mins from every one of those libraries.  I'm in Virginia, not
Maryland.

> > Couldn't I just use PHP's COM objects to parse the Excel spreadsheet
> > instead?
>
> I believe that in order for you to talk to a program using COM you
> actually need to have that program on your computer. In any case, that
> still seems like a heck of a lot harder than just downloading some
> Office clone and exporting as CSV.
>
> However, if you're determined to do this in PHP, this site may have
> something that can help:
>
> http://badblue.com/helpphpo.htm
>

I'll look into it as OpenOffice was apparently a bad option for me.  I
downloaded it but cannot install it (got the Windows version and setup.exe
does absolutely nothing)


> Alternatively, you could download a demo version of this product and
> use this function:
>
> > Added MS Excel->MySQL builder. This is plugin (PHP program) - output
> > in MySQL database.  This program imports data extracted by ABC Excel
> > Parser Pro from an Excel file into a MySQL database table.  There
> > are no PHP programming skills required to create MySQL database from
> > your Excel file.
>
> http://www.zakkis.ca/products/abc_excelparser/index.php
>

Isn't there a free "non-pro" version of this? I saw it on the Web the other
day but can't remember where.


> -adam
>
> PS: I found most of these by typing "PHP Excel" into Google.
>
> -- 
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