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[nycphp-talk] Linking Excel to PHP/MySQL (older versions)

joshmccormack at travelersdiary.com joshmccormack at travelersdiary.com
Thu Jan 8 11:55:31 EST 2004


On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, jon baer wrote:

> I ended up creating a pop3 mailbox for .cvs files + a cron job, so he saves
> the files as .cvs and mails them to a dropbox account which works, but Excel
> has a "Send To" which could also make it easier but I need to find a PHP/XLS
> parser and came across this:
> 
> http://www.zakkis.ca/products/abc_excelparser/index.php
> 
> Which looks sweet but out of his budget ... then (thanks to the NYPHP list
> archive) it seems like the topic was brought up before, I found ExcelRead_FR
> which unfortunatley is all in French ... *but* calls new com() which defeats
> the purpose since the box is running Linux.
> 
> So @ the moment its:
> 
> Client -> XLS -> CVS -> POP3 -> CRON-> PHP -> MYSQL
> 
> - jon


Isn't this the page about ExcelRead (which is in English)?
http://www.andykhan.com/excelread/index.html

Josh




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