Exporting excel to html using php on windows - php

Question

I am using xampp/wamp on windows and looking to convert an excel workbook to a html file.
I am not asking this question right away, i did a lot of research and finally managed to get to a point and got stuck here.
Am using php's COM library to open excel, then read a workbook and try to save it as html, how ever i am having issues with it
This is my code
$excel = new COM("Excel.Application",NULL,CP_UTF8) or die("Unable to instantiate Excel");
$excel->Application->Visible=1;
$excel->DisplayAlerts="False";
$workBook=$excel->Workbooks->Open(realpath("./example-03e-02.xlsx"));
$workBook->PublishObjects->Add(xlSourceSheet, "c:\\temp\\x.htm", "Sheet1", "", xlHtmlStatic, "test_27778", "");
$workBook->Publish (True);
$workBook->AutoRepublish(0);
$excel->Workbooks->Close();
$excel->Application->Quit();
$excel = null;
$workBook=null;
The PUlishObjects method keeps telling me that xlSourceSheet is not defined, i tried to pass it as a string "xlSourceSheet" but it keeps saying parameter type mismatch in one or the other. IN the above case, it says parameter 6 type mismatch;
if i remove the optional parameters like divid and title (the last 2) it shows a type mismatch on source range which empty obviously since am exporting a sheet.
Any body can shed some light on this and tell me what i am doing wrong.
Thanks

Answer 1

Anywyas, i managed to sort out the problem with some further digging into excel developer manual.
I just had to replace xlSourceSheet and xlHtmlstatic with their respective numbers that i found in the docs. xlSourceSheet is 1 and xlHtmlStatic is 0.
If anybody is looking for these codes, here they are
xlSourceAutoFilter 3 An AutoFilter range
xlSourcePivotTable 6 A PivotTable report
xlSourcePrintArea 2 A range of cells selected for printing
xlSourceQuery 7 A query table (external data range)
xlSourceRange 4 A range of cells
xlSourceSheet 1 An entire worksheet
xlSourceWorkbook 0 A workbook
xlHtmlCalc 1 Use the Spreadsheet component. Deprecated in Excel 2007.
xlHtmlChart 3 Use the Chart component. Deprecated in Excel 2007.
xlHtmlList 2 Use the PivotTable component. Deprecated in Excel 2007.
xlHtmlStatic 0 Use static (noninteractive) HTML for viewing only.
$object=$excel->ActiveWorkbook->PublishObjects->Add(1,"c:\\temp\\x.htm","Sheet1",0)->Publish(1);
Thanks cweiske :)