diff --git a/Documentation.html b/Documentation.html index fc2af1f74..13bdc90f2 100644 --- a/Documentation.html +++ b/Documentation.html @@ -4288,37 +4288,12 @@ INSERT INTO REL_towns VALUES ('M', 'Montréal'); 6.23 Export: I heard phpMyAdmin can export Microsoft Excel files, how can I enable that? -

Current version does support direct export to Microsoft Excel and Word - versions 2000 and newer. If you need export older versions, you can use - CSV suitable for Microsoft Excel, - which works out of the box or you can - try native experimental MS Excel exporter. This export has - several problems, most important are limitation of cell content to 255 - chars and no support for charsets, so think carefully whether you want to - enable this.. For enabling this you need to set - $cfg['TempDir'] to - place where web server user can write (for example './tmp') and - install PEAR - module Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer into php include path. The - installation can be done by following command:

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-pear -d preferred_state=beta install -a Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
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First part of switches set we want to install beta version of that module - (no stable version available yet) and then we tell pear we want to satisfy - dependencies.

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If you are running in PHP safe mode, you will have to set - in php.ini the safe_mode_include_dir to the directory - where your PEAR - modules are located, for example:

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-safe_mode_include_dir = /usr/local/lib/php
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You can use + CSV for Microsoft Excel, + which works out of the box, but phpMyAdmin supports direct export + to Microsoft Excel version 97 and newer. For this to work, you need to set + $cfg['TempDir'] to a + place where the web server user can write (for example './tmp').

To create the temporary directory on a UNIX-based system, you can do: