It is also possible to connect directly to MySQL from Excel via MyODBC.

-Rasmus

On Fri, 17 May 2002, Chris Boget wrote:

> > > Is it possible to create an excel file with some data from mySQL, using PHP
> > > ?
> > Yes if you know the file format for excel. If not then write your data into a
> > CSV file.
>
> I just output the data as regular HTML (tabled, usually) but send the following
> headers first:
>
>   header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=myfile.xls");
>   header("Content-Description: PHP3 Generated Data");
>   header("Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel; name='excel'");
>
> The browser will take that to mean that an excel document is coming through
> and will open it up as such.  Since excel understands HTML, your data will be
> displayed correctly.  Usually.
> It's been working fine for us for years.
>
> Chris
>
>
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