Is it possible to format a column (C2:C50) with PHPExcel with the following selected values:
I really can't get this to work..
Already tried something like:
$sheet->getStyle('C2:C50')->getNumberFormat()->setFormatCode(PHPExcel_Style_NumberFormat::FORMAT_DATE_DMMINUS);
But when I look a the cell properties it said the cell is formatted like:
PHPExcel only has a limited set of built-in constants for formats, but you can set the format code to any valid (custom) format just by using the appropriate string:
$sheet->getStyle('C2:C50')
->getNumberFormat()
->setFormatCode('d-mmm');
Note that locale-specific day/month names such as Woensdaag and Maart aren't supported by writers other than the MS Excel specific writers (ie. not in CSV, HTML, PDF)
Most custom format strings will work, though there are a few obscure ones such as $#,," M" that aren't directly supported, for display in formats other than MS Excel itself
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I'm trying to save a table to Excel using PhpSpreadsheet.
One of the columns is a date, however Excel will not recognise it as a date and allow it to be sortable as one unless I manually run the 'Text to columns' procedure in Excel.
I've tried using this line to format it:
$sheet->getStyle('C2:C' . $row)
->getNumberFormat()
->setFormatCode(\PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Style\NumberFormat::FORMAT_DATE_DDMMYYYY);
I've also tried formatting the date in different date formats e.g.
'yyyy-mm-dd' or 'dd.mm.yyyy'.
The 'Text to columns' procedure would seem to suggest my data is tab delimited.
How can I correctly format the date with PHPspreadsheet so Excel recognises it as such?
I use PhpSpreadsheet to create XLSX files. The problem is that I set the date inside the cells with a formatCode but when I create a chart based on these cells the formatCode is not applied on them. This leads to having timestamps inside the chart and a proper date format inside the cells. Does anyone know how to pass the right date format into the chart?
Best regards,
laobiz
You may need to apply date formatting to the cell, e.g. :
$worksheet->getStyleByColumnAndRow($column, $row)
->getNumberFormat()
->setFormatCode(\PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Style\NumberFormat::FORMAT_DATE_DATETIME);
See supported date formats here.
Please note, that MS Excel does not work with unix timestamps like PHP (meaning the number of seconds since 01.01.1970). Instead, Excel counts
the number of days since 01.01.1900 and works with float values when converting to hours/minutes/secs. Therefore you cannot insert into a cell unix timestamp, but convert it into Excel timestamp before. See PHP conversion functions from and into Excel serial date format.
simple question here, I'm using PHPExcel to export a datagrid to an Excel file. In my datagrid, I have a few columns that contain dates and are formatted as 'Y-m-d'. When I extract the grid data, Excel does not recognize the data into those columns as Dates (Excel says that they have a General format and that they have no specific number format).
Is there anyway that I can format the dates so that Excel can recognize them as dates before the data is sent to Excel?
Thanks in advance
PHPExcel have in-built package to set number data as an excel date.
If you i got you right then you are just passing number value as an date and getting type error.
Try like: $date = PHPExcel_Style_NumberFormat::toFormattedString($data, "d-M-Y");
Or refer doc link for more details: http://www.cmsws.com/examples/applications/phpexcel/Documentation/API/PHPExcel_Style/PHPExcel_Style_NumberFormat.html#constFORMAT_DATE_DDMMYYYY
As described in the PHPExcel documentation and in the Examples such as 02types.php
You need to convert those "formatted" dates to an MS Excel serialized date/timestamp
$dateString = '2015-12-21';
$excelTimestamp = PHPExcel_Shared_Date::PHPToExcel($dateString);
and then set that $excelTimestamp as the cell value
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue('C9', $excelTimestamp);
You should then set the format mask for the cell
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()
->getStyle('C9')
->getNumberFormat()
->setFormatCode(PHPExcel_Style_NumberFormat::FORMAT_DATE_YYYYMMDD2);
Trying to parse excel sheets but running into issues with user-defined date formats. The date format does not get added to the formattedData. I have no way of knowing what cell is going to contain a date and the dates come in all types of formats.
Example: M/D/YYYY - 11/17/2015
After parsing the sheet I get the floating point date with no format. I did not echo out the format from PHPExcel on this one.
In another case I echoed out the get format data and it was General for the column column that contained the date, but in excel it had a valid date format albeit user defined of D-MMM-YY - 15-Jul-14.
Testing for dates in these scenarios did not work either using,
PHPExcel_Shared_Date::isDateTime($cell);
So to the question, how do I get the date format or test if it is a date when the format is user defined?
Same issue as PHPExcel number formats for dates
It is using built-in number format id's for custom date formats.
I am facing a problem with the PHPExcel class while i am using that class to read a excel file in my php code.
// Reading the excel data
$objReader = new PHPExcel_Reader_Excel2007();
$objReader->setReadDataOnly(true);
$objPHPExcel = $objReader->load('test.xlsx');
$objPHPExcel->setActiveSheetIndex(0);
$dataArray = $objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->toArray();
I am using this code, Now problem is that when I create a excel file and insert a cell value like a date say 01/09/2012
and reads the full excelsheet using the toarray() function of PHPExcel class, then it do not returns the date value. it's returning a numeric value.
What I found that when we create the Excel file using the MS OFfice application and insert a date into any cell the excel converts the cell to a date format. So now I want to read a date format cell using the PHPExcel class.
Rule one:
It's not a good idea to set $objReader->setReadDataOnly(true); when you'll be working with dates. If you do that, then PHPExcel cannot tell you whether a cell contains a date or a number.
Rule two:
That number is an Excel date value as stored by Excel. The Excel numberFormat Mask then is used to convert that number to a formatted "human readable" date at display-time. (If you've used $objReader->setReadDataOnly(true); then you haven't loaded the cell's numberFormat mask.
If you've loaded the numberFormat masks, then you can use the getFormattedValue() method to return the formatted "human-readable" date as a string.
Rule three:
To convert an Excel numeric date value to a unix date/time stamp or to a PHP DateTime object, you can use the built-in PHPExcel_Shared_Date::ExcelToPHP() or PHPExcel_Shared_Date::ExcelToPHPObject() methods.
Rule four:
All of this is fully documented. But I guess I'm going to have to write a special manual dedicated to Dates with the word DATES in big red letters in the filename.