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.
To use this library, please install php_ole which allow to write big Excel files (larger than 7MB).
Example for your composer.json file:
{
"minimum-stability": "dev",
"require": {
"Weller-IT/php_ole": "master",
"Weller-IT/php_writeexcel": "master",
}
}
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.