PHP | Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer | Introduction

Introduction: Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer is a library written in PHP which helps to read from and write to different types of spreadsheet file formats with the help of given set of classes.

Advantages:

• Easy and effective comparisons.
• Powerful analysis of large amounts of data.
• Splitting out large (or not so large) amounts of information in the form of a spreadsheet, which is easy to manipulate with a fairly ubiquitous spreadsheet program such as Excel (or OpenOffice).

Installation (Composer):

composer require pear/spreadsheet_excel_writer

Usage:

<?php

// require_once 'Spreadsheet/Excel/Writer.php';

// Creating a workbook
$workbook = new Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer();

// Sending HTTP headers
$workbook->send('gfg1.xls');

// Creating a worksheet
$worksheet =& $workbook->addWorksheet('1st Worksheet');

// The actual data
$worksheet->write(0, 0, 'Website');
$worksheet->write(0, 1, 'Address');
$worksheet->write(1, 0, 'GeeksforGeeks');
$worksheet->write(1, 1, 'https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/');

// Let's send the file
$workbook->close();
?>

Output:

Reference: https://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.fileformats.spreadsheet-excel-writer.intro.php