How to remove the properties in excelsheet? - php

Question

I am trying to export drupal views to excel and I am using PHPExcel for creating the excel file. The code is as follows
public static function ExportExcel() {
/** Error reporting */
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', TRUE);
ini_set('display_startup_errors', TRUE);
/** Include PHPExcel */
require_once 'libraries/phpexcel/Classes/PHPExcel.php';
require_once 'libraries/phpexcel/Classes/PHPExcel/IOFactory.php';
// Create new PHPExcel object
$objPHPExcel = new \PHPExcel();
// Set document properties
$objPHPExcel->getProperties()->setCreator("Maarten Balliauw")
->setLastModifiedBy("Maarten Balliauw")
->setTitle("Office 2007 XLSX Test Document")
->setSubject("Office 2007 XLSX Test Document")
->setDescription("Test document for Office 2007 XLSX, generated using PHP classes.")
->setKeywords("office 2007 openxml php")
->setCategory("Test result file");
// Add some data
//$objPHPExcel->setActiveSheetIndex(0);
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->getCell('A1')->setValue('TEST PHPEXCEL');
// Rename worksheet
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setTitle('Simple');
// Set active sheet index to the first sheet, so Excel opens this as the first sheet
$objPHPExcel->setActiveSheetIndex(0);
// Redirect output to a client’s web browser (Excel5)
header('Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment;filename="02simple.xls"');
$objWriter = \PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel5');
$objWriter->save('php://output');
exit;
}
The sample data('TEST PHPEXCEl') is also coming up with special characters and sheet properties too.
What can be done to solve this?
Meanwhile I am using Ubuntu for development.

Answer 1

I have found a solution to omit the properties from the sheet and format it.
$objWriter = \PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel5');
ob_end_clean();
$objWriter->save('php://output');
I think one line code solved my problem
ob_end_clean();

Answer 2

Try to change
header('Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel')
to
header('Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel; charset=utf-8')

Answer 3

try this :
public static function ExportExcel() {
// Redirect output to a client’s web browser (Excel5)
header('Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel; charset=utf-8');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment;filename="02simple.xls"');
/** Include PHPExcel */
require_once 'libraries/phpexcel/Classes/PHPExcel.php';
require_once 'libraries/phpexcel/Classes/PHPExcel/IOFactory.php';
// Create new PHPExcel object
$objPHPExcel = new \PHPExcel();
// Set document properties
$objPHPExcel->getProperties()->setCreator("Maarten Balliauw")
->setLastModifiedBy("Maarten Balliauw")
->setTitle("Office 2007 XLSX Test Document")
->setSubject("Office 2007 XLSX Test Document")
->setDescription("Test document for Office 2007 XLSX, generated using PHP classes.")
->setKeywords("office 2007 openxml php")
->setCategory("Test result file");
// Add some data
//$objPHPExcel->setActiveSheetIndex(0);
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->getCell('A1')->setValue('TEST PHPEXCEL');
// Rename worksheet
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setTitle('Simple');
// Set active sheet index to the first sheet, so Excel opens this as the first sheet
$objPHPExcel->setActiveSheetIndex(0);
$objWriter = \PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel5');
$objWriter->save('php://output');
exit;
}