PHP export to excel with styles

Question

I'm using code from http://forums.codeguru.com/archive/index.php/t-470940.html to create excel in php. Is there a way to add styles like bold and/or italic to cells when doing it that way? Thank you

Answer 1

The method shown in that thread does not generate an Excel .xls file. It generates a tab-separated-value file. This is a plain text format, that does not support styling of any kind

If you want to generate a real xls file with formatting, then look at some of the libraries that can be used from PHP to write actual Excel files such as my PHPExcel library

EDIT

In addition to PHPExcel, you can find details of other PHP libraries for writing real Excel files in the answer to this question