Excel and PHP

[perl]

I have been asked to create a web page that allows a user to edit the data in an excel sheet on the internet and then to be able to view the updated file and be able to download it in *.xls (excel format).

I have no problem creating the *.xls on the fly.

The problem is when you view an excel document on the internet via IE, it will allow you to change the details of any cell but it wont actually save it. I was wondering if it was possible to save the data in each of the cells with PHP/mysql?

The other alternative would be to create a set of forms/text fields on a table but if the above is possible then this would be much easier and quicker I think.

Any Ideas?

[JakesSA]

The internet is stateless. So in other words, trying to save a COM application wont work....you can donwload, ammend the upload it again...or the you simply create a db table, and send the data in their.

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