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ananth_ak
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php and MS office applications

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hi,

is it possible to call MS Office / Open office application using PHP code?

what i want to do is, pipe data retrieved from mysql through php into an excel sheet, so i can generate graphs.
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if the server has COM support, yes. But you can do graphing in PHP... jpgraph for instance..
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ok ive downloaded jpgraph for php5.
is there any howto's for this thing? cant find any on the site i got it from.
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there's sources like the documentation, which is inside the download. There's also the jpgraph support forums: http://jpgraph.intellit.nl/index.php

some online resources at jpgraph: http://www.aditus.nu/jpgraph/documentation.php
note the right sidebar labelled "external tutorials"
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