PHP Fatal error: Class 'sfConfig' not found in while run PHP Excel Symfony1.4

Question

i am trying to run basic example of phpExcel in symfony1.4 and i am getting this error

C:\wamp\www\orangehrm-3.01\symfony>php plugins/sfPhpExcelPlugin/examples_1_2/01s
imple.php
10:39:01 Create new PHPExcel object
PHP Fatal error:  Class 'sfConfig' not found in C:\wamp\www\orangehrm-3.01\symfo
ny\plugins\sfPhpExcelPlugin\lib\sfPhpExcel.class.php on line 9

any idea will be approciate.

Answer 1

The code for this plugin's examples is a bit strange. It uses the sfConfig class to read Symfony config variables but doesn't initialize nor include any Symfony code (hence the error).

In fact when you look at the code of this plugin you'll see that all it does is set some configuration when instantiating PHPExcel object. I would skip the plugin altogether and just use the PHPExcel directly in your project (you can either include it in the controller where you use it or in the ProjectConfiguration.class.php to make it available for the whole project (not recommended though).