Merge table cell in html view from phpexcel - php

Question

How to add rowspan/colspan from phpexcel view table in html ?
I have this table.
I want to view that excel in html using PHPexcel View
but what i got is just like,
The first column was not merged with the second column.
Does anyone know how to add rowspan in phpexcel view in html ?
My code is just like this
$tmpfname = "./sampleData/member.xls";
$excelObj = $excelReader->load($tmpfname);
$worksheet = $excelObj->getActiveSheet();
$worksheet->mergeCells('A1:A3');
$cell = $worksheet->getCell('A1');
$lastRow = $worksheet->getHighestRow();
echo '<table border="1" >';
for ($row = 1; $row <= $lastRow; $row++) {
echo "<tr><td>";
echo $worksheet->getCell('A'.$row)->getValue();
echo "</td><td>";
echo $worksheet->getCell('B'.$row)->getValue();
echo "</td><td>";
echo $worksheet->getCell('C'.$row)->getValue();
echo "</td><td>";
echo $worksheet->getCell('D'.$row)->getValue();
echo "</td><td>";
echo $worksheet->getCell('E'.$row)->getValue();
echo "</td><td>";
echo $worksheet->getCell('F'.$row)->getValue();
echo "</td><td>";
echo $worksheet->getCell('G'.$row)->getValue();
echo "</td><td>";
echo $worksheet->getCell('J'.$row)->getValue();
echo "</td><td>";
echo $worksheet->getCell('K'.$row)->getValue();
echo "</td><td>";
echo $worksheet->getCell('L'.$row)->getValue();
echo "</td><td>";
echo $worksheet->getCell('M'.$row)->getValue();
echo "</td><td>";
echo $worksheet->getCell('N'.$row)->getValue();
echo "</td><td>";
echo $worksheet->getCell('O'.$row)->getValue();
echo "</td><tr>";
}
echo "</table>";

Answer 1

Probably you can use createWriter for creating HTML table from phpExcelObject.
$objWriter = $this->get('phpexcel')->createWriter($phpExcelObject, 'HTML');
ob_start();
$objWriter->save('php://output');
$excelOutput = ob_get_clean();
echo $excelOutput;