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Generate excel xls document with php_PHP tutorial
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- 2016-07-20 11:07:08986browse
php tutorial to generate excel xls document
Method 1 - Using HTTP headers
As mentioned in MS Word, you need to format the HTML/PHP page using Excel friendly CSS and markup Add header
to your PHP script.
header("Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment;Filename=document_name.xls");
echo "";
echo "" ;
echo "
echo "testdata1 t testdata2 t n ";
echo "" ;
echo "";
?>
Method 2 - Using COM object
Please note that there must be all MS Excel files under the server running Install the code described above.
We use a file saved to a temporary directory first, the same approach as MS Word.
//Create new COM object – excel.application
$xl = new COM("excel.application");
//Hide MS Excel application window
$xl ->Visible = 0;
//Create new document
$xlBook = $xl->Workbooks->Add();
//Create Sheet 1
$xlBook->Worksheets(1)->Name = "Worksheet 1";
$xlBook->Worksheets(1)->Select;
//Set Width & Height
$xl->ActiveSheet->Range("A1:A1")->ColumnWidth = 10.0;
$xl->ActiveSheet->Range("B1:B1")->ColumnWidth = 13.0;
//Add text
$xl->ActiveSheet->Cells(1,1)->Value = "TEXT";
$xl->ActiveSheet- >Cells(1,1)->Font->Bold = True;
//Save document
$filename = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), "excel");
$ xlBook->SaveAs($filename);
//Close and quit
unset( $xlBook);
$xl->ActiveWorkBook->Close();
$ xl->Quit();
unset( $xl );
header("Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment;Filename=document_name.xls");
// Send file to browser
readfile($filename);
unlink($filename);