Get a template and dont overwrite the cells into blank spaces - php

Question

I'm having a situation, that i get one template in excel, where i just want to add the information of my database, but when i do that put the template blank just with the information. Please tell me what i'm doing wrong. I'm new to PHPExcel
MODEL:
public function export_excel($id)
{
require_once APPPATH.'Classes/PHPExcel.php';
$queryResult = $this->get($id);
$objPHPExcel = new PHPExcel();
$objPHPExcel->setActiveSheetIndex(0);
$result = mysql_query($queryResult[0]['query_sql']) or die (mysql_error());
//echo "SQL = ", $queryResult[0]['query_sql']; // pass query allright
// Initialise the Excel row number
$rowCount = $queryResult[0]['start_line'];
//start of printing column names as names of MySQL fields
$column = $queryResult[0]['title_cell'];
for ($i = 1; $i < mysql_num_fields($result); $i++)
{
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue($column.$rowCount, mysql_field_name($result,$i));
$column++;
}
//end of adding column names
//start while loop to get data
$rowCount = $rowCount+1;
while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
{
$column = 'B';
for($j=1; $j<mysql_num_fields($result);$j++)
{
if(!isset($row[$j]))
$value = NULL;
elseif ($row[$j] != "")
$value = strip_tags($row[$j]);
else
$value = "";
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->getColumnDimension($column)->setAutoSize(true);
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue($column.$rowCount, $value);
$column++;
}
$rowCount++;
}
$objWriter = new PHPExcel_Writer_Excel2007($objPHPExcel);
//$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel5');
// Write the Excel file to filename some_excel_file.xlsx in the current directory
if($queryResult[0]['template_location'] !=null){
$objWriter->save($queryResult[0]['template_location']);
//echo date('H:i:s') , " Write to Excel2007 format" , EOL;
return 1;
}
else{
$objWriter->save('php://output');
//echo date('H:i:s') , " Write to Excel2007 format" , EOL;
return 1;
}
return null;
}

Answer 1

You're not reading the template, you need to read first from the template and write into:
something like this:
$objReader = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createReader('Excel5');
$objPHPExcel = $objReader->load($queryResult[0]['template_location']);
i hope it helped