Manipulate Excel Files in PHP 🐘

Code examples for the tutorial How to Read and Write Excel Files in PHP?.

The code is packaged as a simple Symfony application with cli commands.

This series also proposes other PHP data integration tutorials:

Installation 📦

Download the source code:

git clone git@github.com:nidup/manipulate-excel-data-in-php.git
cd manipulate-excel-data-in-php

Then the installation comes into 2 flavors, directly on your host or using docker.

Once installed the commands are the same, some docker shortcuts are provided in .docker/bin.

Install directly on your system (option A) 💻

Install the PHP dependencies:

composer install

Install with docker & docker-compose (option B) 🐋

Build the docker image and install the PHP dependencies:

docker-compose up -d 
.docker/bin/composer install

Use the console commands 🚀

Use bin/console or .docker/bin/console to launch a command.

List the commands:

bin/console --env=prod
[...]
nidup
  nidup:excel:generate-big-file  Generate a 1M lines excel file (with box/spout)
  nidup:excel:read-big-file      Read a big excel file and measure time and memory (with box/spout)
  nidup:excel:read-file          Read an excel file (with box/spout)
  nidup:excel:write-file         Write an excel file (with box/spout)
[...]

Launch a command:

bin/console nidup:excel:read-file --env=prod

We use the prod environment here to have the most efficient execution.