[ale] Semi OT

[Geoffrey]

Chris Fowler wrote:
> Just dump to comma delmited or tab delimited.  Then import into Excel.

I suspect the Execs, what you to hold their 'thing' all the way.  They 
want to open an excel file, not do the importing...

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Wanderer [mailto:nomad at rdlg.net]On Behalf Of Robert L. Harris
> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 7:08 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: [ale] Semi OT
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> I'm starting to work with on a project with a co-worker.  He's building
> a very nice system database in postgress with an php front end.  One
> problem just came up.  There are execs who've found out about it and
> want to be able to read the data in excel.  He knows how to extract the
> information from the database with PHP but needs to convert it to an
> excel spread sheet.
> 
> Anyone know a php module or even a perl module that'll convert CSV or
> php data to an excel spread sheet?  Giving them CSV data and expecting
> them to import it is too much work we've been told.
> 
> (It's semi off topic because it's Linix+php+postgress and the only other
> solutions he can find are windows based which we REALY don't want to
> do.)
> 
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> :wq!
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