Comments on: Creating excel files through PHP

By: Matti

Matti — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:12:07 +0000

@Real: you can do all your mark-up with HTML, and Excell with parse it (or at least, some of it). Nothing fancy, just use CSS/headers in HTML and watch how Excel handles it.

By: Real Drouin

Real Drouin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:54:20 +0000

Very good.
Now the users wants the program to set automatically the header, the bottom, the margin, etc… Is it possible ?

By: Matti

Matti — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:58:42 +0000

@Dragan; I guess that would also depend on the character encoding of the server. No experience with exporting to OpenOffice though, so I’m sorry I can’t be of more help.

@Bernat; no, only one sheet is possible, since it’s more of a dirty work-around/hack.

@Others; Thanks for the feedback, appreciate it. :)

By: Abhishek Goel

Abhishek Goel — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:31:31 +0000

You’re a lifesaver. I spent two days struggling with packages like phpexcel for doing something which you showed to be as simple as adding two lines to existing code.

Thanks.

Abhishek

By: ndtwc

ndtwc — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:21:03 +0000

It works perfectly! Thanks!

By: Bernat

Bernat — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:12:04 +0000

Using this way, is it possible to create an excel file with multiple sheets? Thnx.

By: Dragan

Dragan — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:51:02 +0000

I am having trouble exporting some latin characters i.e PHP code works great but OpenOffice failes to show all the characters.. .any help on this? Thanks !

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:58:41 +0000

Thanks for this, didn’t know I could just use html tables this helped me a lot.

By: Matti

Matti — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:40:54 +0000

@Maddog; you could use PHP’s ZIP functionality, to process the Excel output and run it through a compression filter; http://be.php.net/zip. Not the recommended way to do this, though.

By: maddog

maddog — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:35:49 +0000

How save thats files to zip? Is it posible ?

By: Emmanuel

Emmanuel — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:35:19 +0000

Thank you so much for the simple but nice and efficient tutorial. How ever, am having a question. How can I set the generated Excel to be in read & write mode?

By: him_aeng

him_aeng — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:52:44 +0000

Simply the BEST!!!!!

Thank you for your rescue. YOU SAVE MY LIFE.

By: Matti

Matti — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:11:32 +0000

I doubt it, but haven’t tried it yet. It’s a work-around for simple Excel exports, but it’s flawed in many ways since it will have to parse HTML code, where it was expecting properly formatted Excel code. You might be able to trick it by passing some headers, to simulate Excel 2003?

By: James

James — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:18:05 +0000

I tried this for word 2007 and it throws an error that you have to click through in order to get to the excel page. Anyway around this?

By: pahan

pahan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:49:31 +0000

nice and helpful article. I tried so meny method to this and this is the best thing but all Excel sheets give an error in opening.(Asks whether it is from a trusted source.) but Grideline are not visible. Any idea about making these guidelines visible?
thank you.