I decided to do the manual install, as recommended. Following all the steps was easy, but to get it to work, I had to make the following changes:

1. The LoadModule directive needs to specify the sapi subdirectory, so if the files are in C:\php, the correct directive in httpd.conf should be
   LoadModule php4_module "c:/php/sapi/php4apache2.dll"
2. I needed the gd extension, so I uncommented the extension=php_gd2.dll in php.in (a copy of php.ini-recommended), but that was not good enough. I had to modify the extension_dir setting in php.ini to point at the extensions subdirectory, e.g. extension_dir = "c:/php/extensions". After restarting apache everything worked as expected.
   ]]> http://www.edna.narrabilis.com/2006/03/22/installing-apache-and-php-on-windows/feed/ 0 http://www.edna.narrabilis.com/2006/03/08/spreadsheet_excel_writer/ http://www.edna.narrabilis.com/2006/03/08/spreadsheet_excel_writer/#comments Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:48:55 +0000 ednawig http://www.edna.narrabilis.com/2006/03/08/spreadsheet_excel_writer/ The pear package Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer rocks. I include a file similar to excel.inc file in my scripts, and then send data as needed to the spreadshhet.

   Assume the data is organized in an array $data like this:
   $data = array(0=>array("f0"=>"v00", "f1"=>"v01",..."fn"=>"v0n"),
                                     1=>array("f0"=>"v10", "f1"=>"v11",..."fn"=>"v1n"),
                                                       .....
                                      n=>array("f0"=>"vn0", "f1"=>"vn1",..."fn"=>"vnn")
                                     );


   and we are interested in the fields f0, f1, f2 only. The headers for these fields should be “Field One”, “Field Two”, “Field Three”. This is easily achieved by this snippet:
   
   
   
   
   simple_header(array("Field One", "Field Two", "Field Three"));
   $lookat = array("f0","f1","f2");
   for($j=0; $j<count($data); $j++) {
       simple_row($data, $lookat, $j+1);
   }


   And don’t forget a $xls->close(); after all the data has been output!

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   echo "<?php echo highlight_file('file.php'); ?>" | php -q > file.html


   Upload the resulting file and link it to the post as appropriate.

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   Click here to see a (very simplified) example. Note that the directory where the files are created has to be writable by apache (assuming that is the owner of the web server processes). And it really should be outside of the DocumentRoot.
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