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excel-to-html.php View article

<?php

require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use \PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\IOFactory;
use \PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Writer\Html;

// Load the workbook, keeping styles so the HTML can carry them.
$spreadsheet = IOFactory::load('sales.xlsx');

$writer = new Html($spreadsheet);

// Write every sheet, not just the active one.
$writer->writeAllSheets();

// Put the CSS on each element instead of in a <style> block, so the
// table survives being pasted into a page or an email.
$writer->setUseInlineCss(true);

// A whole HTML document: <html>, <head>, the styles, and the tables.
$writer->save('sales.html');

// Just the <table> markup, for dropping into a page you already have.
$writer->setSheetIndex(0);
$tableOnly = $writer->generateSheetData();

file_put_contents('table-only.html', $tableOnly);

echo 'Done. Wrote sales.html (' . strlen(file_get_contents('sales.html')) . " bytes, all sheets)\n";
echo 'and table-only.html (' . strlen($tableOnly) . " bytes, the table markup alone).\n";

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Key methods

IOFactory::load() PhpSpreadsheet

Open any spreadsheet file

getActiveSheet() PhpSpreadsheet

Select the worksheet to fill

fromArray() PhpSpreadsheet

Write many rows at once

getCalculatedValue() PhpSpreadsheet

Read a formula result

save('php://output') PhpSpreadsheet

Stream the file as a download

spreadsheets_values->get() Google Sheets

Read a range of cells

spreadsheets_values->update() Google Sheets

Write a range of cells

spreadsheets->create() Google Sheets

Create a new spreadsheet

json_encode() PHP

Serialize rows to JSON

header() PHP

Send the download headers

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