Set images for price list via phpexcel - php

Question

I have array of data like:
$products = array(
array('path/to/image1', 'name1', 'description1'),
array('path/to/image2', 'name2', 'description2'),
array('path/to/image3', 'name3', 'description3'),
...
array('path/to/imageN', 'nameN', 'descriptionN'),
);
With this code I generate *.xlsx table:
foreach($products as $row) {
$c = 0;
foreach ($row as $cell) {
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValueByColumnAndRow($c, $r, $cell);
$c++;
}
$r++;
}
require_once 'Classes/PHPExcel/IOFactory.php';
$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel2007');
$objWriter->save('/path/for/save');
And after that I get a table with path, name and descriptions. Please help me, because I can't get table where instead of pathes I will get images.

Answer 1

Setting a cell to contain 'path/to/image1' will do exactly that, set the cell to contain a string value of 'path/to/image1'.
You need to set images very specifically, as explained in the documentation and shown in the examples:
$objDrawing = new PHPExcel_Worksheet_Drawing();
$objDrawing->setName('Image');
$objDrawing->setPath('./path/to/image1.jpg');
$objDrawing->setCoordinates('B2');
$objDrawing->setWorksheet($objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet());
You should also note that MS Excel does not store images in a cell. It stores images overlaying a cell, so the image may cover several cells
EDIT
If you need to convert numeric coordinates such as $row=3 and $col=0 to a cell reference like A3:
$cellReference = PHPExcel_Cell::stringFromColumnIndex($col) . $row;
or
$cellReference = $objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()
->getCellByColumnAndRow($col, $row)
->getCoordinate();