Best way to export to Word and Excel from PHP?

Question

PHP

The web application provides the output of some generated table in doc and xls.

Currently, PEAR Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer is used to generate xls, while doc is simply passed an html table with the headers "Content-type: application/ms-word" and "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=file.doc"

Are there better solutions? I would like to keep compatibility with office 2003.

Answer 1

You can try to use openoffice and convert through the console. This is the easiest way.

Answer 2

For Excel, there is PHPExcel, but it eats a lot of RAM.

Answer 3

jodconverter + openoffice