Php to generate numbers spreadsheet

there is a pear package (http://pear.php.net/package/SpreadsheetExcelWriter) that uses php to generate excel spreadsheets. could this be done with numbers? anyone have any idea what would have to change to use numbers instead of excel?

that explains quite a bit, thanks.
this could be worth my while though. i've never used numbers and rarely use excel. is anyone aware of any obvious reasons that using numbers for this purpose might be better?
i have modified a version of the spreadsheet excel writer and making graphs is possible but very tedious and extremely limited, could it be that numbers make it easier to do this?
also excel is tricky with the way it stores dates and some of it's formatting information, and a wild little conversion process as to take place to convert from mysql format to a format excel will display properly. maybe numbers might improve this?
finally, the only way i've discovered to effectively upload information from an excel spreadsheet is to first export it to csv (mostly because of this date and formatting issues) then upload it. obviously it'd make more sense to an end-user not have to export a file to a different format. i was hoping numbers might be able to keep a consistent file format instead.
like you said, the structure is not documented, so i doubt you'd know the answers here for sure. but do have any incline at all that any of these points would be improved by using numbers?
thanks again for your time

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