the system stucks on line containing $excelobj->workbooks->open($filename)

[muhammad_qasim]

i am using EXCEL object in PHP and the code for that is as follows :

$excelobj=new COM("excel.application");
$excelobj->workbooks->open($filename);

the system just stucks on the second line without giving any message. the progress bar on the bottom is moving very slow, and after some time it gives time out error.

please help me in this....

qasim

[bad_goose]

Check to make sure $filename is a string contaning the absolute path to an existing excel file.