I'm trying to get PHPExcel working with Zend2. Actually it is working, but not as I intended (I can write to file, but cannot let download without saving). I found some examples, where you simply do something like this:
$objPHPExcel = ....
header('Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment;filename="01simple.xls"');
header('Cache-Control: max-age=0');
$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel5');
$objWriter->save('php://output');
And file was allowed to download. How can I achive something similar in Zend2 Controller? I've tried so far:
public function generateRaportAction()
{
$objPHPExcel = new PHPExcel();
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue( 'B8', 'Some value' );
$objWriter = \PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter( $objPHPExcel, 'Excel5' );
$response = $this->getEvent()->getResponse();
$response->getHeaders()->clearHeaders()->addHeaders( array(
'Pragma' => 'public',
'Content-Type' => 'application/vnd.ms-excel',
'Content-Disposition' => 'attachment; filename="test.xls"',
'Cache-Control' => 'must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0',
'Content-Transfer-Encoding' => 'binary',
) );
$objWriter->save( 'php://output' );
return $response;
}
But it gives me "echo like" output on my page. My second attempt was:
$response->setContent($objWriter->save( 'php://output' ));
Yet result was the same.
As @Aydin Hassan commented, I've tried with:
$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel2007');
ob_start();
$objWriter->save('php://output');
$excelOutput = ob_get_clean();
And then simply passed $excelOutput
to the response content, and it works simply great!
$response->setContent($excelOutput);
So you can archive, in your controller action, something like this:
public function testPHPExcelAction() {
// I recommend constructor injection for all needed dependencies ;-)
$this->phpExcelService = $this->serviceLocator->get('mvlabs.phpexcel.service');
$objPHPExcel = $this->phpExcelService->createPHPExcelObject();
$objPHPExcel->getProperties()->setCreator("Diego Drigani")
->setLastModifiedBy("Diego Drigani")
->setTitle("MvlabsPHPExcel Test Document")
->setSubject("MvlabsPHPExcel Test Document")
->setDescription("Test document for MvlabsPHPExcel, generated using Zend Framework 2 and PHPExcel.")
->setKeywords("office PHPExcel php zf2 mvlabs")
->setCategory("Test result file");
$objPHPExcel->setActiveSheetIndex(0)
->setCellValue('A1', 'Hello')
->setCellValue('B2', 'world!')
->setCellValue('C1', 'Hello')
->setCellValue('D2', 'world!');
$objPHPExcel->setActiveSheetIndex(0)
->setCellValue('A4', 'Miscellaneous glyphs')
->setCellValue('A5', 'éàèùâêîôûëïüÿäöüç');
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue('A8',"Hello\nWorld");
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->getRowDimension(8)->setRowHeight(-1);
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->getStyle('A8')->getAlignment()->setWrapText(true);
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setTitle('Mvlabs');
$objPHPExcel->setActiveSheetIndex(0);
$objWriter = $this->phpExcelService->createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel2007' );
$response = $this->phpExcelService->createHttpResponse($objWriter, 200, [
'Pragma' => 'public',
'Cache-control' => 'must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0',
'Cache-control' => 'private',
'Expires' => '0000-00-00',
'Content-Type' => 'application/vnd.ms-excel; charset=utf-8',
'Content-Disposition' => 'attachment; filename=' . 'myTest.xls',
]);
return $response;
}
To do it in the above way, you need to use the MvlabsPHPExcel module that gives to you the possibility to use PHPOffice/PHPExcel library into a ZF2 application easily.