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thoroc/php\_writeexcel
======================

Powerful library to write excel files

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php\_writeexcel
===============

[](#php_writeexcel)

PHP port of John McNamara's Spreadsheet::WriteExcel by Johann Hanne, with some tweaks by Thomas Roche ([https://github.com/thoroc/php\_writeexcel](https://github.com/thoroc/php_writeexcel)), and forked by Craig Manley adding more tweaks and some added drop-in compatibility with PEAR's Spreadsheet\_Excel\_Writer.

Dependencies
============

[](#dependencies)

To use this library, please install [php\_ole](https://github.com/thoroc/php_ole) which allow to write big Excel files (larger than 7MB).

Example for your `composer.json` file:

```
{
    "minimum-stability": "dev",
    "repositories": [
      {
        "type": "vcs",
        "url": "https://github.com/thoroc/php_ole"
      },
      {
        "type": "vcs",
        "url": "https://github.com/thoroc/php_writeexcel"
      }
    ],
    "require": {
        "thoroc/php_ole": "master",
        "thoroc/php_writeexcel": "master"
    }
}

```

Perfomance comparison
=====================

[](#perfomance-comparison)

Update by Craig Manley, 2015-12-06: Writing a table of 8 fields and 950 rows to an Excel file resulted in these average elapsed times:

```
PHPExcel: 7.417
PEAR Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer: 1.078
php_writeexcel: 2.065

```

So clearly, PEAR's Spreadsheet\_Excel\_Writer is almost twice as fast. PHPExcel is more modern, but by far the slowest and consumes huge amounts of memory, which is the only reason I tried with this library, updating it slightly in the process.

Original Documentation
======================

[](#original-documentation)

- [README](doc/README)
- [LICENSE](doc/LICENSE)
- [FAQ](doc/FAQ)
- [TODO](doc/TODO)
- [CONTRIBUTION](doc/THANKS)
- [CHANGELGO](doc/CHANGELOG)

###  Health Score

30

—

LowBetter than 65% of packages

Maintenance16

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity33

Limited adoption so far

Community17

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity44

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 51.5% 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.

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

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