C.F. Scheidecker Antunes wrote:
Hello,

I have an Excel spreadsheet that is automatically updated with quotes. I am doing a project for my BS and I need to grab the information from this spreadsheet and populate a MySQL database. Any ideas on how to accomplish that with PHP? The spreadsheet uses a live DDE feed to fetch information from a third party service and needs to be opened.

This is not a matter of reading a static XLS spreadsheet but what I need is a DDE way to talk to the open spreadsheet and update the database when the cells are changed or have a 1 minute loop to go over the cells.

There are a few packages on phpclasses.org which may do what you want: http://www.phpclasses.org

They all seem to use the COM object (http://www.php.net/com) which only works on windows.

This package might help also:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpexcelreader/

and should work anywhere.

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