i have managed to create and save an excel file:
// Rename the file
$fileName = URL . "MODEL/case" . $caseNO . ".xlsx";
// Write the file
$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, $fileType);
$objWriter->save($fileName);
I would like now PHPExcel run Excel automatically, open the file created and maximize it.
Is it possible? Will this work even if Excel is already running?
Thank you for your help,
Donato
As per my above comment, you can only force to have a download option. For this you can set headers in this way -
header("Content-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=\"filename.xlsx\"");
header("Cache-Control: max-age=0");
Reference - PHP Excel Reader
For more options you can also check the cheat sheet - Cheat Sheet
Although the best way to read here - Codeplex
EDIT
Do something like this -
$excel = new PHPExcel();
header('Content-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment;filename="your_name.xls"');
header('Cache-Control: max-age=0');
// Do your stuff here
$writer = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($excel, 'Excel5');
// This line will force the file to download
$writer->save('php://output');
PHPExcel can't run MS Excel on the client.... but you can download a file directly to the browser which will offer the client the options of saving it to disk or opening it directly in MS Excel (if they have MS Excel installed) by sending the appropriate http headers, and "saving" the file to php://output.
Of course, if the client doesn't have MS Excel installed, then opening in MS Excel isn't an option; although it will still prompt for save.
The 01simple-download-xlsx.php file in the /Tests or /Examples directory does exactly this
And "yes", it will work if MS Excel is already running on the client
Insert the following headers just before creating the Writer
$filename = "filedetail". date("Y-m-d-H-i-s").".xlsx";
header('Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment;filename="'.$filename.'"');
header('Cache-Control: max-age=0');
$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel5');
$objWriter->save('php://output');
header("Location: ".URL . "MODEL/case" . $caseNO . ".xlsx");
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I am using PHPExcel for downloading the file as xlsx format. I am using codeigniter framework. Previously i am downloading xls format. At that time the file is downloaded successfully. If i am trying for downloading as xlsx format it gives the error as below image.enter image description here
My code is :
$this->load->library('Excel');
$this->excel->setActiveSheetIndex(0);
$this->excel->getActiveSheet()->setTitle('Sales Data');
$filename='Salesdata.xlsx';
$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($this->excel, 'Excel2007');
header('Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel');
header('Content-Disposition:attachment;filename="'.$filename.'"');
header('Cache-Control: max-age=0');
$objWriter->save('php://output');
There is no error when i am adding as xls format. It gives the error when i am adding as filename.xlsx. Any solution please.
you may continue with php Output buffers and codeigniter download helper
for example :-
$filename='Salesdata.xlsx';
ob_start();
$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($this->excel, 'Excel2007');
//force user to download the Excel file without writing it to server's HD
$objWriter->save('php://output');
$this->load->helper('download');
$excelFileContents = ob_get_clean();
force_download($filename, $excelFileContents);
I wrote a PHPExcel function. With $objWriter->save('plan.xls'); it works perfectly on the server. The problem is that I need to download the file in the browser. So I have to take $objWriter->save("php://output");. The result is that I get a lot of the following weird characters in the browser:
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Have someone an idea why I get this result and not the correct file as download?
My code at the moment: (At the moment it is a empty file for testing).
function loadTableToExcel(){
$excel = new PHPExcel();
$excel->setActiveSheetIndex(0);
$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($excel, 'Excel5');
ob_end_clean();
header('Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment;filename="filename.xls"');
header('Cache-Control: max-age=0');
$objWriter->save("php://output");
//$objWriter->save('plan.xls');
$excel->disconnectWorksheets();
unset($excel);
}
hello i am new to phpexcel,
and i was wondering if there is some way send the excel i have created to the clients download without saving it on my server or to delete it right after he downloads it
i am trying to create an "export button" on a page that will give the user a "pop-up" with the excel that he wants that i have just created.
now after i create the table i do :
$objXLS->getActiveSheet()->getColumnDimension("A")->setAutoSize(true);
$objXLS->getActiveSheet()->getColumnDimension("B")->setAutoSize(true);
$objXLS->getActiveSheet()->setTitle('Test Stats');
$objXLS->setActiveSheetIndex(0);
$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objXLS, 'Excel5');
$objWriter->save(__DIR__."/test1.xls");
but that saves it to my server
thank you
Instead of saving it to a file, save it to php://outputDocs:
$objWriter->save('php://output');
This will send it AS-IS to the browser.
You want to add some headersDocs first, like it's common with file downloads, so the browser knows which type that file is and how it should be named (the filename):
// We'll be outputting an excel file
header('Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel');
// It will be called file.xls
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="file.xls"');
// Write file to the browser
$objWriter->save('php://output');
First do the headers, then the save. For the excel headers see as well the following question: Setting mime type for excel document.
$excel = new PHPExcel();
header('Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment;filename="your_name.xls"');
header('Cache-Control: max-age=0');
// Do your stuff here
$writer = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($excel, 'Excel5');
// This line will force the file to download
$writer->save('php://output');
Use this call
$objWriter->save('php://output');
To output the XLS sheet to the page you are on, just make sure that the page you are on has no other echo's,print's, outputs.
FOR XLSX USE
SET IN $xlsName name from XLSX with extension. Example: $xlsName = 'teste.xlsx';
$objPHPExcel = new PHPExcel();
$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel2007');
header('Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment;filename="'.$xlsName.'"');
header('Cache-Control: max-age=0');
$objWriter->save('php://output');
FOR XLS USE
SET IN $xlsName name from XLS with extension. Example: $xlsName = 'teste.xls';
$objPHPExcel = new PHPExcel();
$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel5');
header('Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment;filename="'.$xlsName.'"');
header('Cache-Control: max-age=0');
$objWriter->save('php://output');
header('Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="file.xlsx"');
header('Cache-Control: max-age=0');
header ('Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT');
header ('Last-Modified: '.gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s').' GMT');
header ('Cache-Control: cache, must-revalidate');
header ('Pragma: public');
$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel5');
$objWriter->save('php://output');
posible you already solved your problem, any way i hope this help you.
all files downloaded starts with empty line, in my case where four empty
lines, and it make a problem. No matter if you work with readfile(); or
save('php://output');, This can be fixed with adding ob_start(); at the
beginning of the script and ob_end_clean(); just before the readfile(); or
save('php://output');.
I tried the $writer->save('php://output'); command proposed by most answers.
But this happened to download a corrupted file.
To fix it, I had to do this:
$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel2007');
header('Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="filename.xlsx"');
header('Cache-Control: max-age=0');
$path = 'path/to/temp/file.xlsx';
// save content to temporary file
$objWriter->save($path);
// This header was key to me, in order to get it working
header("Content-Length: ".filesize($path));
// output file content
readfile($path);
// delete temporary file
unlink($path);
I have this code:
$objPHPExcel = new PHPExcel();
$objPHPExcel->setActiveSheetIndex(0);
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue('A1', 'test');
$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel2007');
header('Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="file.xls"');
$objWriter->save('php://output');
I have 2 problems.
Any headers I tried to save the file with .xlsx extension didn't worked. they all gave me a corrupted file.
My second problem which is much more important - this code worked with .xls extension.
But it download a file with all of the HTML content of the page and when I opened it Excell is giving me an error that I missing the css file.
I'm using this code on the page index.php with include(), the css file is called in index.php.
any help would be appreciated, thx!
i used this code in 4-5 projects and working perfectly, Check if helps
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setTitle('Customers');
$objPHPExcel->setActiveSheetIndex(0);
header('Content-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=Customers-"' . date('d-m-y-h-i-s', time()));
header('Cache-Control: max-age=0');
$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel2007');
$objWriter->save('php://output');
exit;
I am using PHPEXxcel to export an HTML Table generated using MYSQL and its like this.
<?php $query = "SELECT `Firstname`,`Lastname`,`Branch`,`Gender`,`Mobileno`, `Email`
FROM `student_details` WHERE Branch IN ('$branch') and `Year`='$year'
and Tenthresult > '$tenth' and
Twelthresult > '$twelth' and (CGPA > '$cgpa' || CGPA = '$cgpa')";
$result = mysql_query($query);
confirm_query($result);
$objPHPExcel = new PHPExcel();
$objPHPExcel->setActiveSheetIndex(0);
$rowCount = 1;
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->SetCellValue('A'.$rowCount,'Firstname');
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->SetCellValue('B'.$rowCount,'Lastname');
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->SetCellValue('C'.$rowCount,'Branch');
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->SetCellValue('D'.$rowCount,'Gender');
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->SetCellValue('E'.$rowCount,'Mobileno');
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->SetCellValue('F'.$rowCount,'Email');
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
$rowCount++;
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->SetCellValue('A'.$rowCount, $row['0']);
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->SetCellValue('B'.$rowCount, $row['1']);
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->SetCellValue('C'.$rowCount, $row['2']);
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->SetCellValue('D'.$rowCount, $row['3']);
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->SetCellValue('E'.$rowCount, $row['4']);
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->SetCellValue('F'.$rowCount, $row['5']);
}
$objWriter = new PHPExcel_Writer_Excel2007($objPHPExcel);
$objWriter->save('some_excel_file.xlsx');
?>
Its working but it saves the xlsx file in the root folder without showing to user any signs that its being downloaded.
This code rund when i click a button.now, can i make it to be downloaded like we download a mail attachment and showing the user in the front end that its being downloaded along with the location.
I tried using
header('Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment;filename="01simple.xls"');
header('Cache-Control: max-age=0');
With this, i am getting what i wanted above but the xls file downloaded when opened shows
the message
'The File you are trying to open 'filename' is in a different format than the specified extension.....etc.Do you want to open now?
On opening it contains either the entire HTML Page or its simply blank...
Can anybody help me..?
Spreadsheets 101
There are many different spreadsheet file formats, each with their own different filename extensions, and that can be sent to a web browser using different mime types. These are described in the PHPExcel documentation, and each has its own different Writer in PHPExcel. You're mismatching two different formats
BIFF Format
Used by Microsoft Excel between versions 95 and 2003 File
extension: xls
PHPEXcel Writer: PHPExcel_Writer_Excel5
Mime Type: application/vnd.ms-excel
OfficeOpenXML Format
Used by Microsoft Excel since version 2007
File extension: xlsx
PHPEXcel Writer: PHPExcel_Writer_Excel2007
Mime Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
Don't mix and match: if you do, then Excel will (and justifiably) complain. If you want a BIFF file, use PHPExcel's BIFF Writer (Excel5), a file extension of .xls, and the mime type listed above for BIFF Format. If you want an OfficeOpenXML file, then use PHPExcel's Excel2007 Writer, a file extension of .xlsx, and the mime type listed above for OfficeOpenXML.
EDIT
Note that the examples provided with the PHPExcel distribution include 01simple-download-xls.php and 01simple-download-xlsx.php to demonstrate exactly what you want
Just adding those headers only sends those headers. The rest of your code is still the same, so you're saving your xls to your root folder like you used to.
Sending the headers only makes the page you would normally see be send with xls headers. Something which is not what you want, and you're getting your HTML page but with the wrong headers.
What you need to do is send those headers and then stream the xlsx.
Looking at a random thread (I know, bad idea, but this'll get you a headstart on what to do) here, you can find examples like this:
header("Pragma: public");
header("Expires: 0");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Type: application/download");;
header("Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=$filename.xls");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary ");
$objWriter = new PHPExcel_Writer_Excel2007($objPHPExcel);
$objWriter->setOffice2003Compatibility(true);
$objWriter->save('php://output');
I do it with using below snippet.
// Redirect output to a client’s web browser (Excel2007)
header('Content-Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment;filename="test_file.xlsx"');
header('Cache-Control: max-age=0');
// If you're serving to IE 9, then the following may be needed
header('Cache-Control: max-age=1');
// If you're serving to IE over SSL, then the following may be needed
header ('Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT'); // Date in the past
header ('Last-Modified: '.gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s').' GMT'); // always modified
header ('Cache-Control: cache, must-revalidate'); // HTTP/1.1
header ('Pragma: public'); // HTTP/1.0
$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel2007');
$objWriter->save('php://output');
try this ..
header('Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel');
$filename = "Reports".date("d-m-Y-His").".xls";
header('Content-Disposition: attachment;filename='.$filename .' ');
header('Cache-Control: max-age=0');
$objWriter = \PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel5');
$objWriter->save('php://output');