[PHP] PHP, Excel, jpgraph - can the graph be included in the Excel output?

[Jay Blanchard]

[snip]
You need a class that can create xls files with images.
Or you can create a Web Archive:
[url]http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/office/webarchive.htm[/url]
[/snip]

Thanks! We have looked at this, but have arrived at the problem of
opening the file for the user. Here is the process in a nutshell...

User selects report and enters a cut-off date
PHP retrieves info from database
info is processed
PHP opens an Excel headered file in the browser
(hopefully graph appears in page)
user is happy.

I guess that we could open/save the file via PHP and do a redirect to
open.

We can open a frameset, showing the tab delimited Excel file in one
frame and the graph in another. Not very elegant, but if push comes to
shove...

Thanks!

Jay

[Marek Kilimajer]

Jay Blanchard wrote:

> [snip]
> You need a class that can create xls files with images.
> Or you can create a Web Archive:
> [url]http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/office/webarchive.htm[/url]
> [/snip]
>
> Thanks! We have looked at this, but have arrived at the problem of
> opening the file for the user.

This should be a question of sending the right headers.