PhpSpreadsheet/samples/Basic/01_Simple_download_xls.php

<?php

use PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Helper\Sample;
use PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\IOFactory;
use PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Spreadsheet;

require_once __DIR__ . '/../../src/Bootstrap.php';

$helper = new Sample();
if ($helper->isCli()) {
    $helper->log('This example should only be run from a Web Browser' . PHP_EOL);

    return;
}

// Create new Spreadsheet object
$spreadsheet = new Spreadsheet();

// Set document properties
$spreadsheet->getProperties()->setCreator('Maarten Balliauw')
        ->setLastModifiedBy('Maarten Balliauw')
        ->setTitle('Office 2007 XLSX Test Document')
        ->setSubject('Office 2007 XLSX Test Document')
        ->setDescription('Test document for Office 2007 XLSX, generated using PHP classes.')
        ->setKeywords('office 2007 openxml php')
        ->setCategory('Test result file');

// Add some data
$spreadsheet->setActiveSheetIndex(0)
        ->setCellValue('A1', 'Hello')
        ->setCellValue('B2', 'world!')
        ->setCellValue('C1', 'Hello')
        ->setCellValue('D2', 'world!');

// Miscellaneous glyphs, UTF-8
$spreadsheet->setActiveSheetIndex(0)
        ->setCellValue('A4', 'Miscellaneous glyphs')
        ->setCellValue('A5', 'éàèùâêîôûëïüÿäöüç');

// Rename worksheet
$spreadsheet->getActiveSheet()->setTitle('Simple');

// Set active sheet index to the first sheet, so Excel opens this as the first sheet
$spreadsheet->setActiveSheetIndex(0);

// Redirect output to a client’s web browser (Xls)
header('Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment;filename="01simple.xls"');
header('Cache-Control: max-age=0');
// If you're serving to IE 9, then the following may be needed
header('Cache-Control: max-age=1');

// If you're serving to IE over SSL, then the following may be needed
header('Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT'); // Date in the past
header('Last-Modified: ' . gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s') . ' GMT'); // always modified
header('Cache-Control: cache, must-revalidate'); // HTTP/1.1
header('Pragma: public'); // HTTP/1.0

$writer = IOFactory::createWriter($spreadsheet, 'Xls');
$writer->save('php://output');
exit;