Export to excel with multiple sheet using codeigniter? - php

Question

I have a table which contain employee details.I have to export these employee details in excel sheet.In excel each sheet contain each employee details and sheet name should be employee name. In models I have writen a query to fetch the details from database the following is the sample view code. This following code will give only one sheet of result How I implement multiple sheet excel
<?PHP
header ("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");
header ("Pragma: no-cache");
header ('Content-type: application/x-msexcel');
header ("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=employee_workbook.xls" );
$this->load->view('reader/reader');
?>
<?PHP
if($result->num_rows()>0)
{
?>
<?PHP foreach($result->result_array() as $entry):?>
<table width="100%" border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<td width="200" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><strong>Employee ID</strong></td>
<td width="150" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><strong>Employee Name</strong></td>
<td width="150" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><strong>Check in Time</strong></td>
<td width="100" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><strong>Project Name</strong></td>
<td width="100" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><strong>Check Out Time</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><?php echo $entry['emp_id']; ?></td>
<td align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><?PHP echo $entry['emp_name']; ?></td>
<td align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><?PHP echo $entry['in_time']; ?></td>
<td align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><?PHP echo $entry['prj_name']; ?></td>
<td align="left" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><?PHP echo $entry['out_time']; ?></td>
</tr>
</table>
<?PHP endforeach;?>
<?PHP
}
?>

Answer 1

You might want to look into PHPExcel, I have tried almost every script out there to export data to excel, nothing does it better than PHPExcel, you can even export to multiple sheets.

Answer 2

You can also use EasyXLS. Download the Excel library for PHP.
You can find a lot a code samples starting from here. You can save multiple sheets using this library.