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Introducing PHPExcel

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Introducing PHPExcel

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This is cars.csv, that was created in the previous chapter. Csv files are useful for exporting data that's intended to be viewed in a spreadsheet. The main drawback with this sort of file, is that it doesn't have any formatting. For more professional finish, I recommend using PHPExcel, a powerful open-source library. That generates files in Microsoft Excel format. At the time of recording this video, the latest stable version of PHPExcel is 1.8.0 and that's the version included in the exercise files for this course. But if we scroll down to the News section of this site we can see that PHPExcel 2.0 is under development. This is likely to break some backwards compatibility so I recommend that you stick with the latest version of the run.x branch even if the 2.x branch has been released by the time you watch this video. And this news item here says that the 1.x branch will continue to be maintained alongside the development of the 2.x branch. The exercise files for this course contain…

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