3.3.x no longer uses PEAR Excel module

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Marc Delisle
2010-05-16 07:12:03 -04:00
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<a href="#faq6_23">6.23 Export: I heard phpMyAdmin can export Microsoft <a href="#faq6_23">6.23 Export: I heard phpMyAdmin can export Microsoft
Excel files, how can I enable that?</a></h4> Excel files, how can I enable that?</a></h4>
<p> Current version does support direct export to Microsoft Excel and Word <p> You can use
versions 2000 and newer. If you need export older versions, you can use <abbr title="comma separated values">CSV</abbr> for Microsoft Excel,
<abbr title="comma separated values">CSV</abbr> suitable for Microsoft Excel, which works out of the box, but phpMyAdmin supports direct export
which works out of the box or you can to Microsoft Excel version 97 and newer. For this to work, you need to set
try native <b>experimental</b> MS Excel exporter. <b>This export has <a href="#cfg_TempDir" class="configrule">$cfg['TempDir']</a> to a
several problems, most important are limitation of cell content to 255 place where the web server user can write (for example <tt>'./tmp'</tt>).</p>
chars and no support for charsets, so think carefully whether you want to
enable this.</b>. For enabling this you need to set
<a href="#cfg_TempDir" class="configrule">$cfg['TempDir']</a> to
place where web server user can write (for example <tt>'./tmp'</tt>) and
install <abbr title="PHP Extension and Application Repository">PEAR</abbr>
module Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer into php include path. The
installation can be done by following command:</p>
<pre>
pear -d preferred_state=beta install -a Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
</pre>
<p> 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.</p>
<p> If you are running in PHP safe mode, you will have to set
in <tt>php.ini</tt> the <tt>safe_mode_include_dir</tt> to the directory
where your <abbr title="PHP Extension and Application Repository">PEAR</abbr>
modules are located, for example:</p>
<pre>
safe_mode_include_dir = /usr/local/lib/php
</pre>
<p> To create the temporary directory on a UNIX-based system, you can do:</p> <p> To create the temporary directory on a UNIX-based system, you can do:</p>
<pre> <pre>