PHPExcel Mulitple excel file in one HTML page - php

Question

I have 2 xls, i want to plot this information into one HTML Page.
Note: For assumption i mentioned as xls. actual xls positions are already in the database table. i will just render these position and plot into HTML Page.
include_once("Classes/PHPExcel/IOFactory.php");
// Create new PHPExcel object
$objPHPExcel = new PHPExcel();
//first excel file
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()
->setCellValue('c5','10');
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()
->setCellValue('c6','20');
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()
->setCellValue('c7','30');
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()
->setCellValue('c8','40');
$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'HTML');
//second excel file
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()
->setCellValue('c5','50');
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()
->setCellValue('c6','60');
$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'HTML');
$objWriter->save('combinedexcelpage.html');

Answer 1

I'm not going to go through a long explanation of why this doesn't work, because it would take too long to explain; but there are a couple of solutions that you could take to achieve what you want:
Option #1
An Excel workbook comprises one or more worksheets, so you could create each "file" as a separate worksheet, rather than a separate file.
// Create new PHPExcel object
$objPHPExcel = new PHPExcel();
// First excel worksheet, (created when you instantiate a new PHPExcel object)
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()
->setCellValue('c5','10');
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()
->setCellValue('c6','20');
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()
->setCellValue('c7','30');
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()
->setCellValue('c8','40');
// Second excel worksheet
// Add new sheet, which should also set it as the new "active" sheet
$objPHPExcel->createSheet()
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()
->setCellValue('c5','50');
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()
->setCellValue('c6','60');
By default, the HTML Writer will only write a single worksheet (the first), but you can set it to write all sheets:
$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'HTML');
$objWriter->writeAllSheets();
$objWriter->save('combinedexcelpage.html');
Option #2
The HTML Writer save() method will always generate a file stream (whether a filesystem file or php://output), but rather than using save(), you can call individual methods in the class to generate a string containing the formatted worksheet data, and build your own output from those "blocks".
$data = '';
// First excel file
$objPHPExcel1 = new PHPExcel();
$objPHPExcel1->getActiveSheet()
->setCellValue('c5','10');
$objPHPExcel1->getActiveSheet()
->setCellValue('c6','20');
$objPHPExcel1->getActiveSheet()
->setCellValue('c7','30');
$objPHPExcel1->getActiveSheet()
->setCellValue('c8','40');
$objWriter1 = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'HTML');
$objWriter1->generateStyles(false);
$data .= $objWriter1->generateHTMLHeader();
$data .= $objWriter1->generateSheetData();
// Second excel file
$objPHPExcel2 = new PHPExcel();
$objPHPExcel2->getActiveSheet()
->setCellValue('c5','50');
$objPHPExcel2->getActiveSheet()
->setCellValue('c6','60');
$objWriter2 = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel2, 'HTML');
$objWriter2->generateStyles(false);
$data .= $objWriter2->generateSheetData();
$data .= $objWriter2->generateHTMLFooter();
file_put_contents('combinedexcelpage.html', $data);
Both of these options are described in section 6.8 of the developer documentation