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* Problems Formatting Very Small and Very Large Numbers Fix #3128 (author found a workaround but the problem remains). For some complex masks, when a cast of the cell value from float to string results in the use of scientific notation, the result of the formatting is unusable. I believe this PR solves the problem for numbers close to zero (Php cast from float to string uses scientific notation starting with 1E-5), and for a range of large numbers which are not handled correctly now. However, I have not found a way to ensure that the results match Excel for very large numbers (1E18 or larger); this change at least ensures that the resulting string is an accurate rendition of the number (which is not the case now) even if doesn't match Excel. As an example, if you use the mask reported in the original issue `0 000.0` and enter a value of 1E90 into the cell, Excel will show it as 1 followed by 87 zeros, a space, 3 more zeros, decimal point and zero. I have not figured out how to get PhpSpreadsheet to do that; for now, it will just return the formatted value as 1 followed by 90 zeroes instead (I might have chosen to go with scientific notation instead). I will continue to think about those, but do not feel it is worth delaying the improvements in this ticket while I do so. The affected section of code also truncated to the appropriate precision. It now rounds, as Excel does. This seemed to be an area of code where problems might arise on 32-bit systems, and, indeed, I found something in the formatting code which had to be changed for 32-bit to work correctly. As long as I was doing that anyhow, I ran the full test suite, and found that Php8.1 had introduced some new stringencies which caused problems in a handful of places. All were found in Xls Reader, and all are corrected now. * Remove Dead Assignment Scrutinizer will be happy now.
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 7.3.
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": "7.3"
}
}
}
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.