How to make this example output in using Excel table ?

Question

for example :
<?php
$con = oci_connect("apps","apps","prod");
$sql = " select h.order_number,to_char(h.ordered_date,'YYYY/MM/DD HH24:MI'),h.order_type_id
from oe_order_headers_all h
where to_char(h.ordered_date,'YYYYMMDD') = '20060620'
and h.org_id = 85 ";
$smt = oci_parse($con, $sql);
oci_execute($smt);
echo "<table border = 1>";
echo "<tr><td>order_number</td><td>ordered_date</td><td>order_type</td></tr>";
while($rows = oci_fetch_array($smt,BOTH_NUM)) {
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td>".$rows[0]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$rows[1]."</td>";
echo "<td>".$rows[2]."</td>";
echo "</tr>";
echo "</table>";
?>
above example outputs table generally from IE while i want to make it output throught Excel and outputs Excel table.
who can help me ?
thanks!

Answer 1

Hi,
the pear command is a programm, which is installed together with php, as long as you did not configured php with the configure-option "--without-pear".
After you have downloaded a package like Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer-0.9.0.tgz into a folder like, let's say
c:\myDownloads\pear\ (on Windows-systems)
or /myDownloads/pear/ (on UNIX-systems)
you take your Commandline (console, xterm ... ( onUNIX)) or CMD (on Windows) and change to that directory:
$> cd /myDownloads/pear (UNIX)
$> CHDIR C:\myDownloads\pear\ (Windows)
After this, just type:
pear install Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer-0.9.0.tgz
press [ ENTER ] and that's it. The installation will be finished.
After this small steps are done, you can start writing code, using Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
running
$> pear --help
will give you more infos on using the pear utilities.
Greetings from Hamburg
Thorsten