I'm playing around with an PHP - MS Excel integration these days. My task is to open an existing spreadsheet, add some data and save the filled spreadsheet as a new file. Basically sort of a template filling engine, eventhough xlsx files are used as templates.
I looked into PHPExcel which seems to be fairly nice framework. In order to implement a proof of concept I did the following (reduced to the minimum required to illustrate what I need to do):
$objReader = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createReader('Excel2007');
$objReader->setReadDataOnly(true);
$objPHPExcel = $objReader->load("myTemplateToFill.xlsx");
//Here comes the actual filling
$objWorksheet = $objPHPExcel->createSheet();
$objWorksheet->setTitle('Apple') ;
$objWorksheet->setCellValue('A1', 'Banana');
$objPHPExcel->setActiveSheetIndex(0);
$objWriter = new PHPExcel_Writer_Excel2007($objPHPExcel);
$objWriter->save('myFilledTemplate.xlsx');
Running this I found that a new file is created, my daat is inserted but sadly with all of the existing formatting is lost.
So the question is, is there a way to make PHPExcel keep those formattigs in the new file? Or to go even further: is it possible to keep charts etc. in a template file and fill those the way I tried?
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