I am trying to create an outlook distribution list with php but I am having a hard time finding any resources or instructions on how to do so. Is it even possible to do this?
If my memory serves me correct, you can create an XML based contact list that you then import into Outlook. My best suggestion would be to export some contacts from outlook, and look at the XML and then recreate that XML structure via PHP and your contacts.
EDIT - it seams that you can create an CSV file and import that as a distribution list.
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For creating DOCX files, I'm using phpdocx's software which is working great.
But now I need to create XLSX files via PHP. The data is input via many forms and need to create corresponding Excel files with multiple sheets and graphs etc etc.
Is there any tool (including paid one) out there that can generate Excel files via PHP ?
The closest I'm come across is this - PHPExcel but this is now forwarded to PhpSpreadsheet, which is not yet released.
Hi I have a MAMP server set up on a mac I am using and I have this displaying a calendar using the php icalendar source code. I am trying to have this display a public calendar which I can do but I need it to be up to date so I need it to import the Calendars csv file regularly. So my question is does anyone know how I could go about programmatically exporting a .csv file from a public calendar and how I could then import it into a certain location on a server again via a script or code?
Thanks a lot
There are a lot of ways to download the .csv file.
You could use fopen, cURL to download the file. For fopen you need to enable to read files from an url.
An other way, must be supported by the other party. Is to use ftp.
I think the best way for these is just look at php.net how to let them work.
Second you want to make a scheduld job. I don't know it in macs, but with linux you can make cron's you can say these need to be run every x time (1min, 1day 1 week).
In the script you do the download and update part.
Hope it helps
I don't know much about Delphi / ClientDataSets but I'm willing to look into it. I have a question before I pursue it though, to determine if what I want to achieve is feasible.
I want to use a PHP script to save a dozen subsets of my MYSQL database to CDS files once weekly. Is there a File specification that I can follow to create a CDS file? I'll be running the script on a shared web host using Linux, so I don't think running Delphi scripts on the server is viable.
Thanks!
There is a related question on Stackoverflow which includes a partial XSD:
Anyone that has a partial XSD that describes the METADATA section of Delphi TClientDataSet XML files?
You can use this XSD and an XML library to create XML files from your data which are compatible with TCLientDataSet, so they can be opened in a Delphi application.
I don't know PHP XML libraries, but in many languages XML libraries are able to create mapping code based on the XSD, which then can be used to read and write XML files based on the schema definition.
We need to import a MySQL dump from another website to ours. We've been trying SimpleXML, XML DOM etc, but the file is so huge it's crashing our server. We looked into BigDump, but that doesn't handle the XML import. Every tag in our XML file is called <field name="something"> In <table_something> tags, which I haven't seen before - usually it's descriptive custom tags. This is probably because I haven't done much database importing before now,
What we would like is some way to make our PHP import this huge file. It needs to be freshly updated every night so I'm thinking of dropping the tables and importing fresh unless there's a way to search for differences but I wouldn't know how.
Can anyone help with this? What would be the standard procedure for achieving these results?
Moving a database is usually done outside of PHP, via command line script:
Dump db to a file
tar the file
FTP to new server
Then on the new server
untar the file
Import to mysql
Do you have shell access?
If you have to do it via PHP, you'll need to split up the dump into lots of tiny files and import them one at a time. Depending on the size of your database, this could take a really long time.
When doing the dump, minimize the file size by not using XML, stripping comments, etc.
we are building a PHP script that we need at work to create reports in PDFs
the reports will be created by using templates from postgrSQL.
so far I found that it can be done with the use of php and odt (openoffice) files [http://www.odtphp.com/] (do you have any other suggestions?)
now how I can convert the results to PDF so teachers will get the final reports as PDF
any tips? the server has no GUI and I want to make it as simple as possible
we tried using PHP to PDF directly with FPDF [http://www.fpdf.org/] but it is really a CPU killer!
http://www.artofsolving.com/opensource/pyodconverter
this may help you, it needs to start OpenOffice as service, and the python script is merely utilizing its api, maybe you can write one in PHP too