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A. Changes history

Version 4.2:

• A few bugs fixed in OLE parsing class (EEOLE)
• ExcelExplorer->SummaryInformation() reworked - now it reads more data
• Cache engine improvement
• This version is PHP 5.3.x ready

Version 4.1:

• Images and shapes support added (EEImage and EEShape classes)
• Summary information support added (ExcelExplorer->SummaryInformation())
• New exploring options and read filter
• Units convertion functions added (EEHelper class)
• Engine improvement
• Manual reorganized

Version 4.0:

• Engine fully rewritten - now it's object-oriented
• API improvement, new functions and features added
• Migrating to PHP5 platform, PHP4 support discontinued
• Memory usage optimizations
• Rich-text (many styles for the data in one cell) fully supported
• Asian phonetics support added
• UTF-8 data convertion added

Version 3.2 (non-public release):

• Basic rich-text support added
• Engine and API improvements
• Added support of some non-MS Excel files

Version 3.1:

• Better support for PHP5
• Some engine optimizations

Version 3.0:

• Standard version discontinued
• ExcelExplorer's engine reworked, many new features added
• Borders styles and colors support added
• Added BLANK result in FORMULA
• Added exploring options
• ExcelExplorer can now operate in two different modes: normal and memory-safe
• Caching mechanism of readed data for faster exploring
• ExploreWorksheet() method added
• Methods to get individual styles attributes added (GetCellFont, GetCellBgcolor, etc)
• GetMergedColumnsNum and GetMergedRowsNum returns 1 for non-merged cells now

Version 2.3:

• Hyperlinks support added
• (Professional): Cell alignment support added
• (Professional): Fixed - build-in date formats saved as custom now recognized
• (Professional): Fixed - palette color with index 39 was incorrect

Version 2.2:

• Explore_file() method added
• Memory usage optimization
• Speed optimization (about 40% faster)
• (Professional): Fixed - colors order
• (Professional): Fixed - format index
• Fixed - when php notices are enabled, EE reports them in some cases (using variable without checking of existence)

Version 2.1

• (Professional): Cells background color and font color support added
• Some code optimizations

Version 2.0

• (Proffesional): Cell styles (font and format) added
• (Proffesional): GetFontsList and GetFormatsList methods added
• Row height and column width support added
• (Proffesional): Serialize and Unserialize returns string instead of array
• (Proffesional): Added parameter "exclude_hidden" in GetMergedRowsNum and GetMergedColumnsNum methods
• Several bugs fixed
• (Proffesional): On-line demo included in distribution as sample

Version 1.3

• Mac files support added

Version 1.2

• First public release (Standard and Professional editions of ExcelExplorer)

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