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Generate Formatted Excel Files with PHP
There’re many reasons why we would want to generate our report in excel formats. One of them is because a huge number of business personnels are relying on it heavily in their daily operations.
There’re 2 very good methods to generate formatted excel reports. They let you generate excel report with ease able to customize the formatting of the reports like setting cell’s background colors, merging cells, insert formula, insert image, & etc.
The first one is PHPExcel. It let developer to generate Excel 2007 with PHP 5.2 and above. Its a well written library but the fact that it required PHP 5, sites that are still using PHP 4 won’t be very happy about it.
For developers who are still using PHP 4, Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer Pear package will come in handy to you guys.
Hopefully, this blog post will be useful for those who need to generate formatted excel reports with PHP. Enjoy!
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