[FX.php List] Re: Output

[Dana Coe]

Hi all,

I generate excels using the Spreadsheet::writer::excel perl cpan  
module -
I've used the php class, it's GREAT, BUT you run up against a limit  
pretty fast on how big your excels can be. (~ >1.5MB)

This has something to do with php's readline function from what I  
understand.

The perl class has an adjunct class called ::big that will let you  
output monstrous excels no problem. I can generate product list  
excels for thousands of products - including photos - that are  
10-25MB in size.

How to interface that with the php code from FX? Now that's a knotty  
problem!
There is a pecl php class that lets you call perl code from within  
php - this works great, but the documentation is really sparse. Also,  
something in the code absolutely mangles unicode, so I can't use  
that. Still, it's an elegant solution if the excel php class won't  
produce big enough excels for you, and your needs don't encompass  
unicode charsets.

Now I use FX to have php write a delimited file to the server  
(results of my FX call) and call the perl script directly to process  
the text file. Works great; all the unicode formatting is held.

To insert photos, you have to have the photos in BMP format. I call a  
script from the php that converts them via ImageMagic from jpeg to  
appropriately sized bmps and pass the path to the excel generator.

Anyways, if anyone is interested in the code, I'd be happy to send it  
to them.

Regards,

Dana L. Coe

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On Sep 8, 2006, at 12:13 AM, fx.php_list-request at mail.iviking.org wrote:

> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 07:17:32 -0700
> From: Jonathan Schwartz <jonathan at eschwartz.com>
> Subject: [FX.php List] Output
> To: "FX.php Discussion List" <fx.php_list at mail.iviking.org>
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> Is anyone publishing data out of their fx.php solutions to allow
> users to receive either excel or pdf format?
>
> Now that I've been successful in the data entry , edit and review
> phases, I'm looking at how users can receive native FMP reports and
> data exports.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jonathan

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