The branch, master has been updated via 07f63b17ba0779f225d6418276bbef5529d8965c (commit) from 11b52ec3eb2470840f14ac67ad621029320b5515 (commit) - Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- commit 07f63b17ba0779f225d6418276bbef5529d8965c Author: Marc Delisle <marc@infomarc.info> Date: Sun May 16 07:12:03 2010 -0400 3.3.x no longer uses PEAR Excel module ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes: Documentation.html | 37 ++++++------------------------------- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation.html b/Documentation.html index fc2af1f..13bdc90 100644 --- a/Documentation.html +++ b/Documentation.html @@ -4288,37 +4288,12 @@ INSERT INTO REL_towns VALUES ('M', 'Montréal'); <a href="#faq6_23">6.23 Export: I heard phpMyAdmin can export Microsoft Excel files, how can I enable that?</a></h4> -<p> Current version does support direct export to Microsoft Excel and Word - versions 2000 and newer. If you need export older versions, you can use - <abbr title="comma separated values">CSV</abbr> suitable for Microsoft Excel, - which works out of the box or you can - try native <b>experimental</b> MS Excel exporter. <b>This export has - several problems, most important are limitation of cell content to 255 - chars and no support for charsets, so think carefully whether you want to - enable this.</b>. For enabling this you need to set - <a href="#cfg_TempDir" class="configrule">$cfg['TempDir']</a> to - place where web server user can write (for example <tt>'./tmp'</tt>) and - install <abbr title="PHP Extension and Application Repository">PEAR</abbr> - module Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer into php include path. The - installation can be done by following command:</p> - -<pre> -pear -d preferred_state=beta install -a Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer -</pre> - -<p> First part of switches set we want to install beta version of that module - (no stable version available yet) and then we tell pear we want to satisfy - dependencies.</p> - -<p> If you are running in PHP safe mode, you will have to set - in <tt>php.ini</tt> the <tt>safe_mode_include_dir</tt> to the directory - where your <abbr title="PHP Extension and Application Repository">PEAR</abbr> - modules are located, for example:</p> - -<pre> -safe_mode_include_dir = /usr/local/lib/php -</pre> - +<p> You can use + <abbr title="comma separated values">CSV</abbr> for Microsoft Excel, + which works out of the box, but phpMyAdmin supports direct export + to Microsoft Excel version 97 and newer. For this to work, you need to set + <a href="#cfg_TempDir" class="configrule">$cfg['TempDir']</a> to a + place where the web server user can write (for example <tt>'./tmp'</tt>).</p> <p> To create the temporary directory on a UNIX-based system, you can do:</p> <pre> hooks/post-receive -- phpMyAdmin