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I need the ability to export to MS Excel (xlsx) and was initially researching Mattwebsite Excel that many members seemed to be using. However, my system admin stated that we are unable to support Mattwebsite Excel since it has dependencies (PhpSpreadsheet , php_gd2, and etc) that are not installed on our development and production environment. For example, FPDF has very few dependencies which I'm currently using instead of DOMPDF which requires php-font-lib and php-svg-lib.
Appreciate a list of recommended class/package for Excel that are currently being supported.
I dont know of any without any dependencies, but maybe spout has ones you have installed https://packagist.org/packages/openspout/openspout
And the laravel wrapper: https://github.com/spatie/simple-excel
You can of course also write your own implementation from scratch, but that might take a bit longer :)
@Sinnbeck , thanks again for your response. Your answers helped me out a great deal. Let me pass this information to my system admin.
@johnw65 Happy to help. It needs these, but most are standard php extensions
ext-dom: *
ext-fileinfo: *
ext-filter: *
ext-libxml: *
ext-xmlreader: *
ext-zip: *
@Sinnbeck , seems like openspout supports PHP 8, but we are using PHP 7.x.
@johnw65 You might be able to install an older version: https://github.com/spatie/simple-excel/blob/1.10.0/composer.json
But recommend to your IT guy that you upgrade soon. 7.4 has end of life in 2 months (no more security fixes) https://www.php.net/supported-versions.php
@Sinnbeck , going to send information regarding simple-excel. Will this support PHP 7.x?
@johnw65 Did you see the link to version 1.10's composer file? It uses php7.4
@Sinnbeck , much appreciated!
composer require spatie/simple-excel ^1.10
I suggest you use this package:
@elias102 , as stated above, using PHPSpreadSheet, is not allowed in my environment.
Oh sorry, I didn't pay attention. 🙏🌹
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