I'm exporting data in excel sheet via drupal view. Drupal views_export_xls module uses
http://code.google.com/p/php-excel/source/browse/branches/class-excel-xml.inc.php?r=9
library to export data into excel sheet. Every thing working fine. But i want little more from it.
How to add MACRO in excel sheet row or cell programmatically?
Is it possible to do so by php code?
If you look at above link - line no 88 & 93 which actually create cells and rows.
What i want to create a macro and place it on excel sheet that can later convert this generated excel file into native xml (.in) file for business purpose.
I've searched a lot but most of the link suggesting VB solution and i've no sense about this language.
Can anyone point me on right direction.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
As far as I'm aware, unless the Excel writer that you're using is based around COM, then there is no way of creating a Macro in an Excel workbook.
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I need to export data to an Excel template that contains VBA code and data validation in PHP.
I tried using PHPExcel library but it is removing the VBA code and data validations from the template.
I tried using PHPReport library, didn't get proper solution.
The template contains multiple worksheets and they are interdependent.
E.g.: Worksheet 1 contains employee data, then worksheet 2 contains salary with respect to employee name.
I have spent a great deal of time working on this problem, and the problem of memory consumption for large data sets. All of the PHP libs I have found keep all of the cells in memory, which is not viable for anything more than a small sheet.
What I ended up doing was writing a set of Java utilities using Apache POI and packaged them with PHP/Java Bridge so I can call them from PHP. This will allow you to create a new workbook based upon a template, keeping the macros intact. You can also use POI's streaming API, so you can handle massive data sets without crashing your server.
If you have Java chops, I highly recommend going this route, it's really the only way to do brain surgery on Excel files from PHP.
If you have any questions about how to do this or would like some example code, I'll be glad to help.
I have written some PHP that uses a simple HTML form to take in an ISBN number, uses that number to search Amazon's database, gets the book title and pricing information and then exports the information to notepad.
What I need to do now is change it so that a large number of ISBN's can be searched automatically. I was thinking I could do it either by having an excel sheet of ISBN's that I upload, or copy and pasting all of the ISBN's at once into a form.
I need some guidance on how to do this. I do not have a lot of PHP experience.
Thanks!
Here's a PHP library I use for my Excel needs: PHPExcel
It comes with good examples and documentation to get you started.
I have a problem with my project. i want to import Excel sheet directly into mysql database for PHP language without any conversion of Excel sheet into another format. i am very fed about this from last two weeks. So Please help me How I Do it. any expert please help me
You can refer to this question: Reading an Excel file in PHP
Read the excel file using either PHPExcel or PHPExcel Reader (or any other preferred php lib...)
As you are reading the file, insert the data you read into your database.
There is one excel sheet which contains student name, rollno etc. How can i parse the contents of excel file and store that in my sql database?
You are looking for PHPExcel library i believe.
http://phpexcel.codeplex.com/
use this class to read the excel files
http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpexcelreader
If you want to do it directly from the Excel file, rather than create an intermediate CSV using Excel's "Save As" options, then look at libraries such as PHPExcel that can read the xls binary format and make the data accessible to your PHP script.
I'd recommend to you that you save it as csv, it's much more easier and less hacking to upload it to the database
here is simple a sample
http://www.bradino.com/php/csv-upload-to-database/
PHPExcel is one of the best PHP classes i have ever worked with. In addition to parsing and reading files of all Excel variations (including csv) the output to Excel 2007 + is excellent.
Be sure to look at the documentation and examples...they will get you up to speed very quickly
I am generating a simple csv file using php. The file contains some user's personal data.
When I open the generated file in office, the addresses are not displayed in full height. I have to double click on the cell for the address to be shown fully (in full width and height) otherwise I can only see the first word/number of the address.
Also, I have date of births displayed as ######, I have to expand the whole column to see them fully.
This doesn't happen in open office.
Is there any way to force MS Office to show all fields in full? Because otherwise it'll be to confusing for the people who will use (Hey where are all the details!:)
Thanks :)
I don't think you can "format" your sheets with CSV. You will have to produce some other file format that Excel understands. I would suggest XML which is really easy to generate.
Just make a sample sheet with the data you want, save it as XML and you'll see how your file should be generated.
Or you could use some ready-made PHP solution for writing excel files if you can't be bothered with analysing the XML file.
you could try the auto-size columns feature.
This is a UI issue with how Excel works, you can't force Excel or anything else how they handle it.
The quickest work around is to perhaps create an XLS file that runs a macro to retrieve the CVS file and format the cells as needed, but there's nothing you can do inside the CSV to affect what Excel is displaying.