Exporting data to excel (multiple sheets) using php - php

Question

I am trying to export data to Excel using this PHP Class, so far things are working fine and the export is being generated. But now I have a new requirement of generating multiple sheets inside a single excel file.
For example if i have two arrays, i want both to be on separate sheets.
$myarray1 = array (
1 => array ("Oliver", "Peter", "Paul"),
array ("Marlene", "Mica", "Lina")
);
$myarray2 = array (
1 => array ("Oliver", "Peter", "Paul"),
array ("Marlene", "Mica", "Lina")
);
At present both arrays are being exported on a single sheet
$xls = new Excel_XML;
$xls->addArray ( $myarray );
$xls->addArray ( $myarray2 );
$xls->generateXML ( "testfile" );
I am wondering if someone tried this before and was able to achieve it and I will appreciate any help I can get on this.

Answer 1

i would suggest you to use PHPExcel library.supports variety of formats, can do visual formatting and is easy to use.
You can find more about it at their webpage: http://phpexcel.codeplex.com/
You can do a lot more of course, reading excel files, setting visual styles, creating plots, expressions and lot more.
you can even use fgetcsv http://php.net/manual/en/function.fgetcsv.php

Answer 2

this example using PHPExcel
function exportToExcelsheets($data, $fileName){
/* Create new PHPExcel object*/
$objPHPExcel = new PHPExcel();
$sheet_index = 0;
foreach ($data as $s=>$sheet){
/* Create a first sheet, representing sales data*/
$alpha = ['A','B','C','D','E','F','G','H','I','J','K','L','M','N','O','P','Q','R','S','T','V','W','X','Y','Z'];
$objPHPExcel->setActiveSheetIndex($sheet_index);
$head_keys = array_keys($sheet[0]);
foreach ($head_keys as $a=>$headval){
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue($alpha[$a].'1', $headval);
}
$i=2;
foreach($sheet as $row) {
$index = 0;
foreach ($row as $v=>$value){
$value = isset($value)?$value:'';
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue($alpha[$index].$i,$value);
$index++;
}
$i++;
}
/*Rename sheet*/
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setTitle('sheet_'.$s);
/* Create a new worksheet, after the default sheet*/
$objPHPExcel->createSheet();
$sheet_index++;
}
/* Redirect output to a client’s web browser (Excel5)*/
header('Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel');
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$fileName\"");
header('Cache-Control: max-age=0');
//$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel5');
//$objWriter->save('php://output');
$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel2007');
$objWriter->save('php://output');
}