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oskargunther/excel-writer
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OOP lightweight Excel Writer

0.5.4(6y ago)01.8kMITPHPPHP >=7.1

Since Nov 30Pushed 6y ago1 watchersCompare

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Lightweight PHP >7.1 Excel Writer
====================================

[](#lightweight-php-71-excel-writer)

```
This library uses https://github.com/mk-j/PHP_XLSXWriter as engine
It's only OOP wrapper

As the engine, this library don't waste memory and is written for fast generation of huge sheets

```

### Installation

[](#installation)

```
composer require oskargunther/excel-writer

```

### Symfony > 2.8

[](#symfony--28)

```
    class AppKernel extends Kernel
    {
        public function registerBundles()
        {
            $bundles = [
                ....
                new \ExcelWriterBundle\ExcelWriterBundle(),
            ];

        }
    }
```

### Example of usage

[](#example-of-usage)

```
include_once 'vendor/autoload.php';

use ExcelWriter\Writer;
use ExcelWriter\Model\HeaderCell;
use ExcelWriter\Model\CellStyle;
use ExcelWriter\Model\Cell;

$writer = Writer::createWriter();

// Writing headers
$headerCellStyle = new CellStyle();
$headerCellStyle->setColor('#FFF');
$headerCellStyle->setFill('#000');

$sheet = 'example';
$header = new Header();
$header
    ->setAutoFilter(true)
    ->setFreezeColumns(0)
    ->setFreezeRows(1)
    ->createCell('Column1', HeaderCell::TYPE_STRING, $headerCellStyle)
    ->addCell((new HeaderCell('Column2', HeaderCell::TYPE_DATETIME, $headerCellStyle))->setColumnWidth(20));

Writer::writeHeaderRow($writer, $sheet, $header);

// Writing data
$data = [
    ['Value1', date('Y-m-d H:i:s')],
    ['Value2', date('Y-m-d H:i:s')]
];
$column2Style = new CellStyle();
$column2Style->setFontStyle(CellStyle::FONT_STYLE_BOLD, CellStyle::FONT_STYLE_ITALIC);
$column2Style->setBorderStyle(CellStyle::BORDER_STYLE_DOTTED);
$column2Style->setBorder(CellStyle::BORDER_BOTTOM, CellStyle::BORDER_LEFT);

foreach ($data as $dataRow) {
    $row = new Row();

    $row
        ->setHeight(30)
        ->createCell($dataRow[0])
        ->addCell((new Cell($dataRow[1], $column2Style)));

    Writer::writeRow($writer, $sheet, $row);
}

// Saving file
Writer::writeToFile($writer, 'example.xlsx');
```

[Example .xlsx File](https://github.com/oskargunther/excel-writer/raw/master/examples/example.xlsx)

### Using service

[](#using-service)

```
$writer = new \ExcelWriterBundle\Service\ExcelWriterService();
// or
$writer = $this->container->get('excel_writer.service');
// Symfony service is not shared so every instance have it's own writer

$writer->writeHeaderRow(...);
$writer->writeRow(...);
$writer->save($filename);
```

###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 43% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity15

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity51

Maturing project, gaining track record

 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 ~0 days

Total

18

Last Release

2352d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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