Mary Anderson wrote:
> I have a linux based web app which prints an html screen of results.
> My users really want Excel spreadsheets with the same results. There
> is a PEAR application which does this, but from the PEAR description it
> seems to be pretty buggy (65 open bugs, average days open 616 days) and
> dated.
As long as your spreadsheets are simple without too much formatting etc., I
don't think you should worry too much about these bugs. I have used the
package in a variety of contexts without problems.

> My spreadsheets will be somewhat simple. They will have multiple
> workbooks and could be as large as 10000 rows spread out over 100
> workbooks
I assume you mean multiple worksheets, not workbooks (AFAIK there can be
only one workbook per file)? I don't have any experience with a file that big.


You may also have a look at the PHPExcel package:
http://www.phpexcel.net/


Christian