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Dependabot suggested some changes this month which required an unusual effort to implement successfully. With the elimination of Php 8.0 as a supported environment, it became possible to use Phpunit 10 rather than 9. Among other considerations, the configuration file for Phpunit is changed. I preserved the Phpunit 9 version under a different name. Aside from the configuration change, several other changes needed to be made to accommodate the change: - Fix #3993. A peculiar problem indeed. One of the reporters said it had something to do with mocking, but I couldn't duplicate it. But Phpunit 10 revealed the problem in one test (Reader/Xlsx/AutoFilterTest), and that was sufficient for me to apply the trivial source code change to Worksheet/Worksheet. - Some extra stringency on data providers required extra work in Calculation/CalculationFunctionListTest. - There was a misplaced label in Calculation/ParseFormulaTest. Likewise in the data member CellGetRangeBoundaries. - More stringency required changes to data members Shared/Trend/ExponentialBestFit and Shared/Trend/LinearBestFit. - Issue3982Test testLoadAllRows seemed to go into a memory-acquiring loop in 10 that was not evident in 9. This particular test uses a lot of memory by design, but was included only to establish a base level for the other tests in that member. I feel it is acceptable to skip it for 10. Phpstan errors with a new release are not unusual. One of the problems this time around was, however, unusual - it is fixed when Phpstan runs under Php8.3, but not for earlier Php releases. Our tools currently use Php 8.1. It is on my to-do list to get Phpstan and other test tools running under 8.3 before 8.1 goes EOL. There are also some configuration file changes needed for Phpstan. Php-cs-fixer has been taking an increasingly long time to run. They've added an experimental option to permit it to run its checks in parallel. I've changed its configuration to use that option.
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.
Installation
See the install instructions.
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.
Patreon
I am now running a Patreon to support the work that I do on PhpSpreadsheet.
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.
And for Patrons at levels actively using PhpSpreadsheet:
- 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.
My aim is to post at least one article each month, taking a detailed look at some feature of MS Excel and how to use that feature in PhpSpreadsheet, or on how to perform different activities in PhpSpreadsheet.
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.