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diego3/php-export-data
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A simple library for exporting tabular data to Excel-friendly XML, CSV, or TSV

v1.0.0(10y ago)36.1k3MITPHPPHP >=5.3.0

Since Sep 29Pushed 10y ago1 watchersCompare

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php-export-data by Eli Dickinson

Released under the permissive MIT License:

A simple library for exporting tabular data to Excel-friendly XML, CSV, or TSV. It supports streaming exported data to a file or directly to the browser as a download so it is suitable for exporting large datasets (you won't run out of memory).

Excel XML code is based on Excel\_XML by Oliver Schwarz ()

Composer Install
----------------

[](#composer-install)

```
composer require diego3/php-export-data
```

How to use it
-------------

[](#how-to-use-it)

```
// When executed in a browser, this script will prompt for download
// of 'test.xls' which can then be opened by Excel or OpenOffice.

use Export\ExportDataExcel;

// 'browser' tells the library to stream the data directly to the browser.
// other options are 'file' or 'string'
// 'test.xls' is the filename that the browser will use when attempting to
// save the download
$exporter = new ExportDataExcel('browser', 'test.xls');

$exporter->initialize(); // starts streaming data to web browser

// pass addRow() an array and it converts it to Excel XML format and sends
// it to the browser
$exporter->addRow(array("This", "is", "a", "test"));
$exporter->addRow(array(1, 2, 3, "123-456-7890"));

// doesn't care how many columns you give it
$exporter->addRow(array("foo"));

$exporter->finalize(); // writes the footer, flushes remaining data to browser.
exit(); // all done
```

See the test/ directory for more examples.

Some other options for creating Excel files from PHP are listed here:

###  Health Score

33

—

LowBetter than 72% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity27

Limited adoption so far

Community12

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity59

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 58.8% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3929d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/36f600456766fc26b21094e8102db8a4bf05092b7467b62b689cd5adb01a4e1c?d=identicon)[diego3](/maintainers/diego3)

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Top Contributors

[![elidickinson](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/44751?v=4)](https://github.com/elidickinson "elidickinson (20 commits)")[![diego3](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7679729?v=4)](https://github.com/diego3 "diego3 (13 commits)")[![NemoD503](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4633952?v=4)](https://github.com/NemoD503 "NemoD503 (1 commits)")

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Tags

libraryexcelcsv

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