Comments on: Saving Form Data to Google Spreadsheets Using PHP and the Google Docs API

By: Subha

Subha — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:44:42 +0000

Hi Dimas,

Wonderful post, worked like a charm.

However had query, is it possible to specify the number of rows that the “getRows” function is to return?

My problem is the file that I am trying to read has about 2000 rows, and it gives the “Fatal error: Allowed memory size…”, I believe the solution to this to restrict the number rows that is returned.

Is it possible to do so?

Regards
Subha

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:21:14 +0000

I export my spreadsheets from Google Docs using CSV files this way

By: Joe Engel

Joe Engel — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:59:30 +0000

Totally rad dude. So much easier than programming to the Zend/Google APIs.

I had the error:
‘A worksheet id must be provided for list queries.’
and fixed it by changing the default sheet name from “Sheet1″ to “Sheet 1″ at line 34.

Thanks so much!

By: Ramakant Yadav

Ramakant Yadav — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:36:48 +0000

Hi
Awesome work done by you.
your Google spreadsheet class help me a lot.
thanks for great work, keep it up.

Thanks and Regards
Ramakant Yadav

By: Jackson

Jackson — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 11:37:41 +0000

Dear Dimas,
Thank you for the code and tutorial you wrote, clearly explained!

Regards,
Jackson

By: Dimas

Dimas — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:44:17 +0000

Mark, thanks for the tips, this has me moving in the right direction, however doing simple things like: =INDEX(B:B,ROW())+INDEX(C:C,ROW()) still seem to produce unexpected results. The weird thing is that when I use the google docs UI and enter in the same formula it works.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:51:34 +0000

The answer I found to my problem above is to use row() to get the current row, so the formulas for every row can be the same.
=if(index(feed!a:a,row()) >5, “Good”,”Bad”)

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 09:35:16 +0000

This latter part is the same problem I’m working on I think.
I add a row to a worksheet “feed”, and have another sheet “report” that mirrors the feed row for row, but uses formulas to make new columns.
For example:
The “feed” has a score in column A, and report has in cell A2
=if(feed!a2 >5, “Good”,”Bad”)
So the problem is when I add a row to “feed”, I also need to add a row to “report”, but I don’t know what row number to use in the formula.
How do I find out what row number the addRow will add to?
I tried pre-filling the formulas in “Report”, but because I’m adding a row to “Feed”, that’s inserting a row, and so the formulas in “Report” then have their row numbers increased by one and so are wrong.
I’ve thought about using update row instead of add, or adding a row number column, but those approaches seem a bit clunky.

Anyone got a nice solution to this (like being able to get the current row number)?

Mark

, and adding new columns using formulas.links to that data. They do not update

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:00:56 +0000

Wow,
What a fantastic response!. That is brilliant.
I’ve tried it out and it works perfectly (I just had to strip out the punctuation characters in my column names when I did the matching, as you alerted me to).
Thanks so much!

By: Dimas

Dimas — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:48:19 +0000

Geoff, I don't have a solution for you. My initial tests inserting =1+1 work ... the spreadsheet shows the evaluated value, but the underlying formula is still present. The problem I am having is during insert, knowing which row number is being currently worked on to the able to write a proper formula, =B14+C14 ... I don't know enough about spreadsheet formulas to know if there is a SELF variable that I can use, such as =B{row}+C{row}