Handling office open xml (xlsx) documents with PHP

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  •  05-07-2019
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Question

I need to create sort of a php based Excel (xslx) handling component. I figured that there are several open source projects around which are into this. Does anyone has particular experiences / advice on this for me? I.e. which one to go with, which one is to be avoided?

I tend to go with PHP-Excel.

thx in advance for your thoughts...

K

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Solution

I used PHP-Excel for many times. One of authors have some examples on blog, sorry only in czech.

OTHER TIPS

It depends on what you want to accomplish. If you need to precisely generate an excel file, such a package is the way to go. Using it, you can specify the spreadsheet as much as you like/need.

If you need to open a file and search-and-replace in it, usually such packages are unable to do so. Then you had better manually modify the file:

  1. Open it as a zip
  2. read the structure
  3. modify the xml-files
  4. save them back to the zip
  5. Rename the zip to .xlsx

Sounds tedious, but is a tremendous learning experience and gives you even more control over the file.

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