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This functionality relies on the PEAR module
Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
, which
is currently at version 0.9.1 and generates Excel 5.0 format files. This module is
documented at
http://pear.php.net/package/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
, but
the complete installation in phpMyAdmin's context is documented here:
1.
Ensure that the PHP server has PEAR support. (The
pear
command will fail
if we do not have PEAR support.) PEAR itself is documented at
http://pear.php.net
.
2.
If we are running PHP in safe mode, we have to ensure that we are allowed
to include the PEAR modules. Assuming the modules are located under;
/
usr/local/share/pear
, we should have the line
safe_mode_include_dir
=
/usr/local/share/pear
in
php.ini
.
3.
We then install the module with:
pear
-d
preferred_state=beta
install
-a
Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
(because the module is currently in beta
state). This command fetches the necessary modules over the Internet and
installs them into our PEAR infrastructure.
4.
We need a temporary directory—under the main phpMyAdmin
directory—for the
.xls
generation. It can be created on a Linux system with:
mkdir
tmp
;
chmod
o+rwx
tmp
.
5.
We set the
$cfg['TempDir']
parameter in
config.inc.php
to
'./tmp'
.
We should now be able to see the new
Native MS Excel data
export choice.
Open Document Spreadsheet
This spreadsheet format is a subset of the Open Document (
http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/OpenDocument
), which was made popular with the OpenOffice.org office
suite. We need to choose only one table to be exported in order to have a coherent
spreadsheet. Here is our author table, exported into a file named
author.ods
subsequently looked at from OpenOffice:
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