HI i am exporting some data from database in .xls format but when i try to save my file it alerts me that file type is not .xls format. I need to store it in excel 97-2003 Workbook. when i pretend for save as option, default file type is in as tab delimited.. how can i overcome it?? below is my code..
if ( $_POST["frmDownload"] == "Excel") {
header("Content-disposition: attachment; filename=employee_details.xls");
header("Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel");
header("Content-type: application/x-msexcel");
}
use phpExcel which is excellent for all excel manipulation.
Here is the list of examples.
use the method fromArray to write excel from array which is fetched from persistent data.
use the method toArray to form a php array from excel sheet.
The learning curve is very simple first try first example only from official site.
Then try the fromArray and toArray its very easy and also phpExcel have lots of functionality like gradient background for a cell, border size increasing, formula manipulation and new worksheet also easy to create.
Important: read documentation on when ever you get free time
The format is tab delimited... You are just 'naming' it excel in this way... Look at gvgvgvijayan's answer for the solution to your problem.
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I need to create an excel table with help of php. Is that possible? The php code below creates and write to an excel file. I would like to create an excel table with the data, see picture below. I'm using PhpSpreadsheet (sorry I forgot to say that)
Edit: The code below uses library PhpSpreadsheet to ceate a excel file with some content.
I want to create an excel table:
The code works and create the content as the second picture below shows. This is NOT an excel table, just plain text in cells.
But that is not what I want. I want to be able to create the content as the first picture below shows. This is an excel table. When you create an excel table by hand you can choose colrs etc. I do not care about the colors. Excel add the column name and push the content down.
What I have tried is to add: $sheet->setAutoFilter('A1:B5'); to the code, but this does not create an excel table as shown in the third picture below.
So the question is: What do I need to add to the code above to be able to create the content as shown in the first picture below
The fourth picture below shows how to crate an excel table in excel (and this is what I want the php code to do)
$spreadsheet = new Spreadsheet();
$sheet = $spreadsheet->getActiveSheet();
$sheet->setCellValue('A1', 'A1');
$sheet->setCellValue('A2', 'A2');
$sheet->setCellValue('A3', 'A3');
$sheet->setCellValue('A4', 'A4');
$sheet->setCellValue('A5', 'A5');
//$sheet->setCellValue('A6', 'A6');
$sheet->setCellValue('B1', 'B1');
$sheet->setCellValue('B2', 'B2');
$sheet->setCellValue('B3', 'B3');
$sheet->setCellValue('B4', 'B4');
$sheet->setCellValue('B5', 'B5');
$writer = new Xlsx($spreadsheet);
$writer->save('CreateExcelTable.xlsx');
The picture below show the tableI would like to create
With the code above this is created:
With the code added:
$sheet->setAutoFilter('A1:B5');
The picture below show what is created.It is not a table
Insert/Table is simply a GUI "shortcut" method for styling and setting autofilters against a block of cells. Both of these can be done as individual tasks using PHPSpreadSheet, but the library does not provide a "shortcut" way of doing this with a single method call.
Take a look at section of the Developer documentation.
I have a similar problem.
My Excel Template had some array formulas that refer to Named Data Tables,
(instead of writing in the array formula A2:A150 i would simply write NameOfMyTable[NameOfColumn])
When i inserted some data in my template using PhpSpreadSheet and downloaded the produced excel file, Each instance of NameOfMyTable[NameOfColumn] was replaced with REF!
Instead of searching how make or preserve Named Data Tables while using PHPSpreasheet. I simply converted all my Named tables back to simple ranges. (you can easily do this conversion through TableTools in excel without having to change every formula in your Excel Template).
I have a code I wrote, use it if you want
look at the code
using
$excelExport = new ExcelExport(['name' => 'dılo'], 'file');
$excelExport->download();
shortest excel creation example with php
basic example
<?php
$file="demo.xls";
$test="<table ><tr><td>Cell 1</td><td>Cell 2</td></tr></table>";
header("Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file");
echo $test;
?>
After looking over the documentation for Box/Spout I do not see a way to format cells for currency.
NOTE: PhpExcel and PhpSpreadsheet are not an option.
Is there a way to format a cell?
While styling, is there a way to set the width of the cells?
This is my code so far.
It works, but is lacking currency formatting and width:
$writer = WriterFactory::create(Type::XLSX); // for XLSX files
$writer->openToFile($tmpfile); // write data to a file or to a PHP stream
$writer_sheet = $writer->getCurrentSheet();
$writer_sheet->setName($invoiceSheetName);
$headerStyle = (new StyleBuilder())
->setFontBold()
->setFontUnderline()
->build();
// add header with style
$writer->addRowWithStyle($header, $headerStyle);
$writer->addRows($resultsArray); // add multiple rows at a time
$writer->close();
$excelOutput = file_get_contents($tmpfile);
Documentation:
Spout Documentation
Help is greatly appreciated.
Decided to implement my own implementation with unzipping the xlsx file and modifying the correct xml file.
I wanted to append data in the pre formated excel sheet that is basically header footer in the excel sheet I wanted to append the contents. And will create many files dynamically.
A simple workaround is:
create a html table with the formatting you need
add values in php to the table (or generate table with php)
save file as .xls (filled with content from html table)
open file (will show formatted table in Excel)
Reason:
handling XLS files is very complex and many libraries have big limits (only available on windows servers....)
html table saved as .xls can be opened in Excel.
Thanks I have found the way PHPExcel is a good library.
In order to get PHPExcel http://www.codeplex.com/PHPExcel working with CodeIgniter, there are a few steps you must take to ensure compatibility with CodeIgniter's naming standards.
1: Class names must match the file names. PHPExcel has a few files(such as PHPExcel/IOFactory.php) that have names like PHPExcel_IOFactory. Change these names by removing the "PHPExcel_" part. These constructors in these files must be public in order for CI to access them.
$this->load->library('phpexcel');
$this->load->library('PHPExcel/iofactory');
$objPHPExcel = new PHPExcel();
$objPHPExcel->getProperties()->setTitle("title")
->setDescription("description");
// Assign cell values
$objPHPExcel->setActiveSheetIndex(0);
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue('A1', 'cell value here');
// Save it as an excel 2003 file
$objWriter = IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel5');
$objWriter->save("nameoffile.xls");
I am using PHP to export html table layout into excel format (.xls), well the html format opens up fine in Excel but distorted in OpenOffice..
do i have to add any special config to make html format work in OpenOffice?
Any suggesion would be helpful..
I use the below code
header("Content-Type: application/ms-excel");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=invoice.xls");
It's my practice to create HTML tables and save them as files with names like something.xls
Then both Excel and OpenOffice will open them as spreadsheets.
I don't use PHP, I use Perl, but no Content headers are involved.
I know this isn't the right place to ask about this specific vague problem, but maybe someone knows this library well enough to enlighten me. Here is the thing:
I am writting an Excel5 over an existing Excel file with PHPExcel. I need to upload that Excel to the Zoom website, so it can provide me with a list of tracking numbers. However, for some reason the library they are using to read the uploaded Excel files cannot read the rows written by PHPExcel and the only solution I've found so far is to manually copy the contents of my dynamically generated Excel to another document using MS Excel 2007.
In other words, the Zoom website can read the rows written natively by Excel but not rows written by PHPExcel. My file has only one single sheet, and I can open it no problem with Excel 2007.
Even if I manually add some rows to the template and then add more rows with PHPExcel, Zoom will read the rows written manually by me, but not the rows written by PHPExcel.
This is how I'm doing it:
// Starting with the PHPExcel library
$this->load->library('PHPExcel');
$this->load->library('PHPExcel/IOFactory');
$template_file = 'zoom_tracking_template.xls';
$i = 3;
$objReader = IOFactory::createReader('Excel5');
$objPHPExcel = $objReader->load($template_file);
$objPHPExcel->setActiveSheetIndex(0);
// Fetching ML payments
foreach($payments as $row)
{
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue('A'.$i, 'VANESSA NEISZER');
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue('B'.$i, '02127616116');
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue('C'.$i, '1ER PISO MINITIENDAS 199 BLVD SABANA GRANDE, CRUCE C / CALLE NEGRIN');
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue('D'.$i, $row->mailing_city);
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue('E'.$i, $row->mailing_name);
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue('F'.$i, $row->mailing_name);
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue('G'.$i, $row->mailing_personal_id);
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue('H'.$i, $row->mailing_phone);
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue('I'.$i, $row->mailing_address1.' '.$row->mailing_address2);
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue('J'.$i, $row->nickname);
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue('K'.$i, '1');
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue('L'.$i, '0.3');
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue('M'.$i, 'M');
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue('N'.$i, 'PRODUCTO');
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue('O'.$i, '0');
$i++;
}
$objPHPExcel->setActiveSheetIndex(0);
$objWriter = IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel5');
// Sending headers to force the user to download the file
header('Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment;filename="Envios'.date('dMy').'.xls"');
header('Cache-Control: max-age=0');
$objWriter->save('php://output');
I have no clue of what PHP library they are using to read Excel files and I am certain they wont tell me if I ask them. I know they use PHP, and their library only read Excel 2003 files, however, I don't know why they can't read my files but they can read other files written manually on MS Excel.
Any clues, ideas or suggestions I could try would be greatly appreciated.
And PHPExcel's main developer is looking at this issue (among others), somewhere in between trying to find a new day job and having a life. I'm not familiar with the zoom website, or the software that they use. PHPExcel BIFF8 files can be read by Excel, OOCalc and Gnumeric without error... but a couple of questions spring to mind.
What version of PHPExcel?
Does any of the data contain UTF-8 characters?
Are there any formulae in the template worksheet?
If so, what are they?