Is it possible to write data to a speadsheet using only PHP? I need a really simple way to harvet email addresses and don't want to start working with databases, as I have to set something simple up and don't want to be involved with the more complicated issues that always seem to arise with databases.

 

If it's not possible, what's the next simplest way? Thanks.

You can't write directly to a spreadsheet per say, but you could write to a text/csv file then import that into a spreadsheet.

 

By "harvesting" I home these are emails collected where your sites visitors have agreed to receive mailing from you?

Yes, it's for a newsletter sign-up. Basically, my client wants to build a mailing list with an excel document.

You can use PHP to create text files pretty easily (Tutorial) and through that you should be able to create a CSV which will import into excel nicely.

 

/chris