Excel and PHP

[Raymond]

I'm have a problem using .XLS files in my php project.
The task is to read some data from excel file and import it to a MySQL database to feature use (to dynamically update data on my site). I write php script that uses COM functions and it solve my problem. But for now we change hosting and this not working under nix (hmm.... I no doubt with this... 🙁 ) There is no COM under *nix.... 🙁
Any suggestions, please???

[Sxooter]

Sorry, while it looks like there are plenty of classes that create xls files that can run under Unix, it appears that all the classes / function libs I've seen that read it do so through COM.

Maybe you could talk MS into porting the COM object interface to Linux? :-)

[elv1n]

Try this one: www.softclub.org/excelexplorer/

This php class provide excel data read without using COM. So it would work on Unix.

[Sxooter]

For commercial software it's pretty cheap too, just $50 to $75.

[dominant]

Is there any effective but free program to do the same job?