PhpSpreadsheet is a library written in pure PHP and providing a set of classes that allow you to read from and to write to different spreadsheet file formats, like Excel and LibreOffice Calc.
File formats supported
| Format | Reading | Writing |
|---|---|---|
| Open Document Format/OASIS (.ods) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Office Open XML (.xlsx) Excel 2007 and above | ✓ | ✓ |
| BIFF 8 (.xls) Excel 97 and above | ✓ | ✓ |
| BIFF 5 (.xls) Excel 95 | ✓ | |
| SpreadsheetML (.xml) Excel 2003 | ✓ | |
| Gnumeric | ✓ | |
| HTML | ✓ | ✓ |
| SYLK | ✓ | |
| CSV | ✓ | ✓ |
| PDF (using either the TCPDF, Dompdf or mPDF libraries, which need to be installed separately) | ✓ |
Software requirements
PHP version 7.1 or newer to develop using PhpSpreadsheet. Other requirements, such as PHP extensions, are enforced by composer. See the require section of the composer.json file for details.
PHP version support
Support for PHP versions will only be maintained for a period of six months beyond the end-of-life of that PHP version
Installation
Use composer to install PhpSpreadsheet into your project:
composer require phpoffice/phpspreadsheetHello World
This would be the simplest way to write a spreadsheet:
U<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Spreadsheet;
use PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Writer\Xlsx;
$spreadsheet = new Spreadsheet();
$sheet = $spreadsheet->getActiveSheet();
$sheet->setCellValue('A1', 'Hello World !');
$writer = new Xlsx($spreadsheet);
$writer->save('hello world.xlsx');