Generating and Emailing excel files using PHP

I am trying to generate excel file in PHP using ExcelWriterXML. I am able to create it but it is gicing me option to save it on system. But I want the generated file to be sent as an attachment in email. Can anyone please help me in this problem? Or is there an开发者_Go百科y other way except using PEAR to generate and email excel files dynamically in PHP?

Thanks a lot.

The following tutorial will help you do what you want.

http://www.texelate.co.uk/blog/send-email-attachment-with-php/

PS: Read also the comment there are some valuable posts :)

If ExcelWriterXML has no facility to store the result in a variable, you can use PHP ob_start, ob_get_contents, etc to temporarily capture output to a variable and then pass that to an emailer. see http://php.net/manual/en/function.ob-start.php