Comments on: XLS Download from PHP Class!

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:33:09 +0000

Hi Stefi, is the file stored itself in UTF8? Also have you run utf8_encode() over the data before it creates the cells?

thanks
Sean

By: stefi

stefi — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 07:37:18 +0000

Hi Sean,

thank you very much you for your class!
It is very useful and nice.

But I have still problem with encoding in UTF8. String ěščřžýáíé looks ?????ýáíé

Do you some idea please?

Thank you stefi.

By: jbogdani

jbogdani — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 07:23:25 +0000

Hi.
Thank you for your help. I just changed the encoding of my data before packing them and now it works fine!
Here it is the changed function (if anybody needs it):

function cell($value) {
$value=utf8_decode($value);
if (is_numeric($value)) {
… etc …
}

$this->xls_string .= $value;

$this->col++;
}

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:48:14 +0000

Hi there. Glad you are finding it useful. I used to work a lot with UTF8. We used to have to put utf8_decode() on a load of the outputs for various download and output systems. Maybe that will work?

thanks
Sean

By: jbogdani

jbogdani — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:55:48 +0000

Hello,
thank you very much for your class witch I found very useful and fast.
But I have an encoding problem. I use your class to export data from a MySQL DB via PHP. Both MySQL and PHP work with UTF-8 char encoding, but when I open the xls file all accentuated characters looks strange: “Ã«n” stands for “ë”, etc. Maybe I have to specify character encoding the xls header? Could you help me in any way?
Thank you very much