* Eliminate Shared\JAMA The code under `Shared\JAMA` is called from exactly 3 places in Calculation, and exactly 1 other place (see next paragraph). These places are inadequately covered in the test suite, so it is not clear that the existing code works. In addition, see PR #2964 for commentary decrying the continued used of JAMA. I will also note that it has a pitiful 8.20% coverage in the test suite. There seems to already be a perfectly adequate equivalent in Calculation for those parts of JAMA which are used (e.g. we don't use any decompositions, so the fact that no decomposition code is present in Calculation is not a problem). This PR replaces the uses of JAMA within Calculation with `checkMatrixOperands`, and deletes Shared/JAMA entirely (which, among other thing, makes many Phpstan reported problems go away). The test suite is enhanced to ensure coverage of all the changed statements. A side benefit of deleting Shared/Jama is that the only function which PhpSpreadsheet has added to the global namespace (hypo in Maths.php) goes away. There is one additional use in Shared/Trend/PolynomialBestFit. That use is best replaced with Matrix/Matrix, which is already a requirement for PhpSpreadsheet. PolynomialBestFit has zero test coverage, and I didn't add any for this change. There seem to be existing errors which both Phpstan and Scrutinizer complain about, and I am quite convinced that they are not false positives. Fixing those problems will be a project for another day. Calculation has many calls to `Information\ErrorValue` and `Information\ExcelError`. It is inconsistent in how it does so - most invoke `Information\E...` but a small number take advantage of additional `use` statements to just invoke `E...`. I have made the usage consistent by changing the small number to act like the majority and eliminating the `use` statements. Some of the test cases exposed the fact that MAX, MAXA, MIN, and MINA do not properly handle error strings in their input. For example, if cell A1 contains 2, and A2 contains `=5/0`, `=MAX(A1, A2)` should return `#DIV/0!`. They are changed to handle them properly. `Shared\JAMA` was normally omitted from code coverage. Since it is being deleted, there is no longer a reason to explicitly exclude it. `Writer\PDF` was also on the exclude list, probably for historical reasons, but there is no reason to exclude it now (it is, in fact, 100% covered), so it will no longer be excluded. * Scrutinizer Eliminate some newly dead code.
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.
PHP Version Support
LTS: Support for PHP versions will only be maintained for a period of six months beyond the end of life of that PHP version.
Currently the required PHP minimum version is PHP 7.4, and we will support that version until 28th June 2023.
See the composer.json for other requirements.
Installation
Use composer to install PhpSpreadsheet into your project:
composer require phpoffice/phpspreadsheet
If you are building your installation on a development machine that is on a different PHP version to the server where it will be deployed, or if your PHP CLI version is not the same as your run-time such as php-fpm or Apache's mod_php, then you might want to add the following to your composer.json before installing:
{
"require": {
"phpoffice/phpspreadsheet": "^1.23"
},
"config": {
"platform": {
"php": "7.4"
}
}
}
and then run
composer install
to ensure that the correct dependencies are retrieved to match your deployment environment.
See CLI vs Application run-time for more details.
Additional Installation Options
If you want to write to PDF, or to include Charts when you write to HTML or PDF, then you will need to install additional libraries:
For PDF Generation, you can install any of the following, and then configure PhpSpreadsheet to indicate which library you are going to use:
- mpdf/mpdf
- dompdf/dompdf
- tecnickcom/tcpdf
and configure PhpSpreadsheet using:
// Dompdf, Mpdf or Tcpdf (as appropriate)
$className = \PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Writer\Pdf\Dompdf::class;
IOFactory::registerWriter('Pdf', $className);
or the appropriate PDF Writer wrapper for the library that you have chosen to install.
Chart Export
For Chart export, we support following packages, which you will also need to install yourself using composer require
- jpgraph/jpgraph (this package was abandoned at version 4.0. You can manually download the latest version that supports PHP 8 and above from jpgraph.net)
- mitoteam/jpgraph (fork with php 8.1 support)
and then configure PhpSpreadsheet using:
Settings::setChartRenderer(\PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Chart\Renderer\JpGraph::class); // to use jpgraph/jpgraph
//or
Settings::setChartRenderer(\PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Chart\Renderer\MtJpGraphRenderer::class); // to use mitoteam/jpgraph
One or the other of these libraries is necessary if you want to generate HTML or PDF files that include charts.
Documentation
Read more about it, including install instructions, in the official documentation. Or check out the API documentation.
Please ask your support questions on StackOverflow, or have a quick chat on Gitter.
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.

