i have been reading around looking for a way to get graphs and so on into my spread sheet i export out of my database and to make it look better for my employee who wants reports of everything in a certain way and so on. I have found PhpExcel.. which seems really good it can do everything i want it to plus more.. but i haven't been able to work out how to use data from my mysql table to fill in the cells since it seems like they all have to be manually set to a value...
i have read over this post How to set cell value Dynamically
i have attempted to use the code provided in this page to try and help me out but i havent been able to get it to work for some reason i am always receiving an error.
i am hoping someone may be able to help me out with trying to get this MySQL table data into a spreadsheet using php excel or even if there are any other links i may have missed i would really appreciate it...
If you install phpmyadmin to connect to your database.
Then you can write SQL queries for whatever reports you need.
And Export (see image 1) the results to CSV or CSV for MS Excel (see image 2).
Export option below the query results
Choose export data format
I have done this using the PEAR classes for PHP. You can read the data from the MYSQL database and then write the script using the PHP and PEAR classes to create an excel file for the same.
Here is link to the SpreadSheet Writer
This tutorial will help you to install PEAR and write the data to the excel sheet.
Hope this will solve the problem you are facing.
I'm doing a lot of work with PHPExcel... I wrote a little class to simplify exporting, you can download it here.
You just need to get your data from database into array, pass it to this class and specify the output format. I hope it helps.
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A few months ago, my supervisor needed me to create a form to collect some data - at the time, the most sensible thing to do was just to whip together a Google Form, no problem. Now it turns out that the data collection program needs to expand, and it makes more sense to direct the form to a MySQL database (using PHP) instead - again, no problem, already done. However, for reasons I won't elaborate on here, my supervisor still wants that data to go to the original Google Sheet as well.
My question - is it possible to submit form data to two separate sheets when one is a MySQL table and the other is a Google Sheet?
Thanks!
I know that feel bro ;)
There's some resources to handle boss requests:
PHPExcel Class is a library written in pure PHP and providing a set of classes that allow you to write to and read from different spreadsheet file formats, like Excel (BIFF) .xls, Excel 2007 (OfficeOpenXML) .xlsx, CSV, HTML...
You will need an script to process the outputs.
Excel / CSV > MySQL
MySQL > Excel / CSV
If you need directly to work with Google Docs, you will have to follow the previous steps and play with the following project:
php-google-spreadsheet-client is a library that provides a simple interface to the Google Spreadsheet API.
You will need to store data in MySQL and pass it to Google.
Second idea:
If your boss neet it NOW, you can give a chance to Zapier and do it fast. If you don't need a very fast sync time, it can be a good free option.
I hope it helps :)
First of all, I do know the process of exporting MySQL data to excel file using php. But I have some specific requirement and I want to know if it can be done or not. I have already googled, but didn't get any specific information or method regarding the same.
This is my xls template :
Overview:
Column C is fixed and others are scrollable.
There are basically couple of organizations.
Data starting from COL-C8 to COL-L8 is exactly stored on a MySQL Table of an organization (e.g. Organization1).
Data of COL-C1 to COL-C5 & D1 to D5 is on another MySQL Table of Organization1.
So for every organization there are 2 different MySQL tables.
Requirement :
The goal is to export data from MySQL and add it to the excel file according to the image above.
Problem :
Adding data from MySQL table to excel is pretty easy if the requirement is to just replicate same on the excel sheet. But I have no idea how to do this customization.
Like pulling data from two different tables and adding them to different columns in an excel sheet.
Please let me know if it is possible. And if yes, then kindly direct me to some references on how to achieve this.
Thank You!
Try PHPExcel. This library allows you to read and write from/to .xls files.
I've currently got a database with just short of 2000 client locations in Australia. What I am trying to do is to display this data on a heatmap, to be embedded into an existing website.
I've done a heap of looking around, and can't seem to find exactly what I'm after.
http://www.heatmapapi.com/sample_googlev3.aspx
http://www.heatmaptool.com/documentation.php
These are along the right lines of what I want to achieve, however I cannot see these working with data from a mysql database (require the data to be hard-coded, or uploaded through CSV files).
Has anyone come across this sort of thing before, or managed to achieve it?
Both of the examples you provide would potentially work.
With the first you would need to use the data you have to dynamically generate the javascript, or at least the values that go into the javascript.
The second is probably the better option. You would provide a path to the script that would dynamically generate a CSV file.
Let's go ahead and get this out of the way - i realize I can generate tables with php and mysql and output in 'almost' any format I need but in this scenario, the excel spreadsheet is formatted in some strange ways (layout, color, etc) and the client won't budge. I have to use the exact excel spreadsheet.
I am trying to pull data from a mysql database with php calculations behind it and populate various cells within an Excel file. Is it possible to do this?
Thank you ahead of time
You can try PHPExcel ( http://phpexcel.codeplex.com/). I think this is what you are looking for.
Alright, see if I can pick your brains from you all.
I'm currently working on a project where all the information comes from different clients, the only thing in common is that the received data is done with excel. The excel spread sheet that they present is just a bunch of references and codes, and the problem than I'm facing is that I need the references and codes to be entered in certain format in order for the website to work.
The perfect situation will be to go to each client and teach how I would need the data, but I can't do that because of the large number of clients, and more importantly I will be interrupting their work flow. Each client has its own codes and reference model and they are not willing to change their process
The good news is that there is a standard pattern for the codes, but I'm talking close to 200 thousand codes with a bunch of combination.
They way that we are currently solving the problem is that we have a person who checks each excel sheet received, runs a few macros, and manually fixes those codes in which the macro was not able to fix.
The person that is doing this, is already burn out and frustrated and I would like to automatize this process with php.
Suggestions?
There's a nice class called PHPExcel that allows you to write and read from a variety of document types:
http://www.codeplex.com/PHPExcel
You need to enable the php_zip extension for Excel 2007 documents
you can use dbTube.org to solve your problem. You can configure the mapping
in graphical editor. The import definition can be saved and reused. It is
not neccessary to change the excel sheet.
Greetings Andreas