If you need to use PHP to make and interact with Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet app, then using PHPExcel is a good way to go.
If you need to use PHP to make and interact with Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet app, then using PHPExcel is a good way to go. PHPExcel is a library that has been written in PHP and has a complete set of classes, which will allow you to write to and read from different spreadsheet file formats, such as Excel (BIFF) .XLS, Excel 2007 (OFFICEOPENXML) .XLSX, CSV, LIBRE/OPENOFFICECALC .ODS, GNUMERIC, PDF, and HTML. Because PHPExcel interacts not only with MS Excel but also with other formats, it can be a little hard to get started.Supported Read File Formats include:
- BIFF 5-8 (.XLS) Excel 95 and above.
- Office Open XML (.XLSX) Excel 2007 and above.
- SpreadsheetML (.XML) Excel 2003.
- Open Document Format/OASIS (.ODS).
- GNUMERIC.
- HTML.
- SYLK.
- CSV.
Supported Write File Formats include:
- BIFF 8 (.XLS) Excel 95 and above.
- Office Open XML (.XLSX Excel 2007 and above.
- HTML.
- CSV.
- PDF*.
PHPExcel runs on
Windows 10/11
and is available under the
OpenSource under LGPL
license
— the installer is 5.16 MB.
We’ve catalogued it under
General.
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