INTRODUCTION Read data from Excel spread sheets without Microsoft! Provides an API to allow any application to read Excel documents. Written in PHP. Based on the the Java version by Andy Khan. LINKS OpenOffice.org's Documentation http://sc.openoffice.org/excelfileformat.pdf OLE2 Storage Documentation http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/poifs/fileformat.html Java API for reading, writing and modifying the contents of Excel spreadsheets http://www.andykhan.com/ CONTACT Vadim Tkachenko vt@apachephp.com INFO For use encoding you must have installed iconv extension, otherwise data output in unicode HOW TO USE see example.php