oleibman
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Fix #3982. A number of issues submitted about Xlsx read performance have a common theme, namely that row 1,048,576 and a few rows before it are defined in the worksheet Xml with no cells attached to them. These might be the work of a third party product. While these extraneous rows do not cause any problems for the cells that are actually used on the worksheet, they can lead to excessive memory use. This PR provides an option for the application to ignore rows with no cells when loading. Recent changes to the load logic had already made a significant difference to memory consumption and load time. For the spreadsheet attached to issue 3982, which had caused out-of-memory errors on the user's system, peak memory usage was already reduced to 40-odd MB. With the new option, this is drastically reduced again, to just over 9MB. Specifying the new option is very easy: ```php $reader->setIgnoreRowsWithNoCells(true); ``` Note that there are cases where you might not want this (non-default) behavior. For example, if you set a row height on a row with no cells, the height would be lost with this option. Unfortunately, the extraneous row definitions in the problematic spreadsheets claim to have a custom height, so I can't just use "no custom row styles" as an additional filter.
PhpSpreadsheet
PhpSpreadsheet is a library written in pure PHP and offers a set of classes that allow you to read and write various spreadsheet file formats such as Excel and LibreOffice Calc.
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Supporters will receive access to articles about working with PhpSpreadsheet, and how to use some of its more advanced features.
Posts already available to Patreon supporters:
- The Dating Game
- A look at how MS Excel (and PhpSpreadsheet) handle date and time values.
- Looping the Loop
- Advice on Iterating through the rows and cells in a worksheet.
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- Behind the Mask
- A look at Number Format Masks.
The Next Article (currently Work in Progress):
- Formula for Success
- How to debug formulae that don't produce the expected result.
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Planned posts for the future include topics like:
- Tables
- Structured References
- AutoFiltering
- Array Formulae
- Conditional Formatting
- Data Validation
- Value Binders
- Images
- Charts
After a period of six months exclusive to Patreon supporters, articles will be incorporated into the public documentation for the library.
PHPExcel vs PhpSpreadsheet ?
PhpSpreadsheet is the next version of PHPExcel. It breaks compatibility to dramatically improve the code base quality (namespaces, PSR compliance, use of latest PHP language features, etc.).
Because all efforts have shifted to PhpSpreadsheet, PHPExcel will no longer be maintained. All contributions for PHPExcel, patches and new features, should target PhpSpreadsheet master branch.
Do you need to migrate? There is an automated tool for that.
License
PhpSpreadsheet is licensed under MIT.