write to Excel from PHP, How?

[Anon]

Is it possible to write to an excel file from PHP. I needed to write data records
to an excel file.
Could anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks
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[Anon]

Yup

Set it up as an ODBC source, and define an area of the table as a particular name, and you can use the odbc commands from PHP to write to that particular source (via its name which you defined). I've used PHP to read from excel spreadsheets across networks before, and it works surprisingly well (and not desperately slow, either).