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scyks/excellence
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Minimal an lightweight PHP-Excel writer implementation

1.1.1(12y ago)22.1k[3 issues](https://github.com/Scyks/Excellence/issues)BSD-3-ClausePHPPHP >=5.3.0

Since Mar 7Pushed 11y ago1 watchersCompare

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Excellence
==========

[](#excellence)

Excellence is a simple and lightweight implementation to write Excel files. This library will only support *xlsx* (OfficeOpenXml format) files.

**Library is currently under development**

- [Documentation](Documentation/markdown/index.md)
- [Performance Tests against PHPExcel](#performance-tests-against-phpexcel-library)

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

[](#requirements)

- PHP Version 5.3.0 or higher
- PHP extension php\_zip enabled

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

[](#installation)

### Source from github

[](#source-from-github)

You can just download the source via github and manage it by yourself. `git clone https://github.com/Scyks/Excellence`

### Composer

[](#composer)

To add Excellence as a dependency to your project, just add a dependency on scyks/excellence to your composer.json file.

```
{
    "require": {
        "scyks/excellence": "dev-master"
    }
}

```

Performance Tests against PHPExcel library
------------------------------------------

[](#performance-tests-against-phpexcel-library)

Performance tests made on Mac OSX 10.9 (2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB DDR3 Ram) PHP 5.4 executing in terminal window. There where no styles added or something else, this is just creating a simple lightweight Excel file.

Excel Table looks like this one:

RowsABCD...T1test column value220.9=SUM(B1:C1)...=SUM(Q1:R1)2test column value220.9=SUM(B2:C2)...=SUM(Q2:R2).....................### Excellence library vs PHPExcel

[](#excellence-library-vs-phpexcel)

**Excellence****PHPExcel***Lines/Columns**Memory**Time**Filesize**Memory**Time**Filesize*1000 / 204,75 MB~ 0,9 sec85 KB21.5 MB~ 12 sec86 KB5000 / 2021,00 MB~ 4,3 sec406 KB81.75 MB~ 55 sec402 KB10000 / 2041,00 MB~ 9 sec806 KB153.5 MB~ 114 sec796 KB50000 / 20204.00 MB~ 44 sec3,8 MB736 MB~ 763 sec4,1 MB1000 / 10019.50 MB~ 5,0 sec393 KB77.75 MB~ 59 sec388 KB5000 / 10095,50 MB~ 25 sec1,86 MB367.75 MB~ 339 sec1,89 MB10000 / 100190,75 MB~ 51 sec3,7 MB651.0 MB~ 744 sec4,0 MB50000 / 100957.75 MB~ 266 sec18.4 MB> 2,7 GB> 70 min?

###  Health Score

24

—

LowBetter than 32% of packages

Maintenance0

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity18

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

4451d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e91bbd8c3bdc8da31193fd5b31db98afe16e16301da74e845e642a358247c03b?d=identicon)[Scyks](/maintainers/Scyks)

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Top Contributors

[![Scyks](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/875242?v=4)](https://github.com/Scyks "Scyks (33 commits)")

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Tags

excelPHPExcelphp-excel

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