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maraya/cake-php-excel
=====================

CakePHP excel generator using PHPExcel library

v1.1.2(11y ago)63.4k3MITPHPPHP >=5.2.0

Since Nov 19Pushed 11y ago1 watchersCompare

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CakePHPExcel
============

[](#cakephpexcel)

A plugin to generate Excel files with CakePHP. Uses CakePHP view files to generate them (with PHPExcel\_IOFactory class from PHPExcel).

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- PHP 5.2.8
- CakePHP 2.1+
- [PHPExcel](https://github.com/phpoffice/phpexcel)
- Composer

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Add to your composer.json file (maraya/cake-php-excel)

```
"require": {
	"maraya/cake-php-excel": "1.1.*"
},
"config": {
	"vendor-dir": "Vendor/"
},
"extra": {
    "installer-paths": {
        "Plugin/CakePHPExcel": ["maraya/cake-php-excel"]
    }
}

```

And run

```
composer update

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

In `app/Config/bootstrap.php` add:

```
CakePlugin::load('CakePHPExcel',
	array(
		'routes' => true
	)
);

```

Add the RequestHandler component to AppController, and map Excel extensions to the CakePHPExcel plugin

```
'RequestHandler' => array(
	'viewClassMap' => array(
		'xls' => 'CakeExcel.Excel',
		'xlsx' => 'CakeExcel.Excel'
	)
),

```

Create `Layouts/xls/default.ctp` (in this example the charset is UTF-8)

```

```

Place the view templates in a `xls` subdir, for example: `app/View/Reports/xls/clients.ctp`

```
Title

		col1
		col2
		col3

		val1
		val2
		val3

```

And in your controller:

```
class ReportsController extends AppController {
    public function clients() {
		$this->excelConfig =  array(
			'filename' => 'clients.xlsx'
		);
	}
}

```

Call the URL

```
http://example.com/reports/clients.xlsx

```

If you want to download Excel5 format, change the URL extension from xlsx to xls.

Inside your view file you can write HTML code. Please see the [PHPExcel](https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPExcel) documentation for a guide on how to use PHPExcel.

###  Health Score

32

—

LowBetter than 69% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity24

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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

Every ~16 days

Recently: every ~24 days

Total

7

Last Release

4148d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/48353eb4e6d38db425f332aec18abfab0db8cdde06f95e3072bd15d8ba972ded?d=identicon)[maraya](/maintainers/maraya)

---

Top Contributors

[![maraya](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1999596?v=4)](https://github.com/maraya "maraya (11 commits)")

---

Tags

cakephpexcelPHPExcelmaraya

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