Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer for Php5

Question

Could anyone share the link where I can download Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer for Php5. On the main site http://pear.php.net/package/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer I was able to find that it is compatible with php 4.1.0 .. Apparently when i downloaded the code I found a lot of errors which was uncompatible with PHP5 . Could anyone please give me the link where I can download the file which works on PHP5 . Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Here is a solution. You have to ignore a lot of PHP errors, then edit Spreadsheet/Excel/Writer/Worksheet.php and change in line 2490

$this->_append(&$string, true);

to

$string = $this->_append($string, true);

and add a line after line 1348 in function _append with

return $data;

Add the same to Spreadsheet/Excel/Writer/BIFFWriter.php after line 165 in function _append.

Edit: The big issue, however, is in OLE/PPS/Root.php in line 623 you have to change

fwrite($FILE, pack("V", 1));

to

fwrite($FILE, pack("V", $num_sb_blocks));

Answer 2

There is no php5 port of Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer available on PEAR. Patches welcome!