title: convert xls to html with php
body: <p>I am wondering if I can get some advice on folks that might have come across this before.</p>
  
  <p>Basically I have a folder with files a user can add / remove which has an iframe beside it so they can view their PDF's etc.</p>
  
  <p>I cannot get excel (probably ppt either) to open up in chrome or a browser.
  I know I can go through google docs, or send files and get it back different format through their api but for security it is not a solution I want to work with.</p>
  
  <p>example I saw in excel:
  If I have a fairly loaded excel file, graph, formulas etc., in that file I 'Save As' and convert to htm I can publish option which provides a beautiful htm page with all relative pics, links in a folder.  If I can get php to do something similar this would really make my day.</p>
  
  <p>I played with PHPExcel but it usually spits out a mess, sometimes just crashes because of formulas.  Unless I just haven't sent the time with PHPExcel to figure this out I don't know what else to do.</p>