perlitz-group/php_writeexcel

Powerful library to write excel files

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excelspreadsheetxlsdocumentwriter

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-06-10 11:21 UTC

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Last update: 2026-07-10 11:32:18 UTC

README

Forked from https://github.com/thoroc/php_writeexcel.

PHP port of John McNamara's Spreadsheet::WriteExcel by Johann Hanne, with some tweaks by Thomas Roche (https://github.com/thoroc/php_writeexcel), and forked by Craig Manley adding more tweaks and some added drop-in compatibility with PEAR's Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer.

Dependencies

To use this library, please install php_ole which allow to write big Excel files (larger than 7MB) – this is done automatically if you install this library with Composer.

Install with Composer:

composer require perlitz-group/php_writeexcel dev-main

Perfomance comparison

Update by Craig Manley, 2015-12-06: Writing a table of 8 fields and 950 rows to an Excel file resulted in these average elapsed times:

PHPExcel: 7.417
PEAR Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer: 1.078
php_writeexcel: 2.065

So clearly, PEAR's Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer is almost twice as fast. PHPExcel is more modern, but by far the slowest and consumes huge amounts of memory, which is the only reason I tried with this library, updating it slightly in the process.

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