+ +This block contains an italicized word; +while this block uses an underline. + +
+
+I want to eat steakpizza.
+
+';
+
+$wizard = new PHPExcel_Helper_HTML;
+$richText = $wizard->toRichTextObject($html);
+
+$objPHPExcel->setActiveSheetIndex(0)
+ ->setCellValue('A1', $richText);
+
+$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->getColumnDimension('A')->setWidth(48);
+$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->getRowDimension(1)->setRowHeight(-1);
+$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->getStyle('A1')
+ ->getAlignment()
+ ->setWrapText(true);
+
+
+// Rename worksheet
+echo date('H:i:s') , " Rename worksheet" , EOL;
+$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setTitle('Simple');
+
+
+// Set active sheet index to the first sheet, so Excel opens this as the first sheet
+$objPHPExcel->setActiveSheetIndex(0);
+
+
+// Save Excel 2007 file
+echo date('H:i:s') , " Write to Excel2007 format" , EOL;
+$callStartTime = microtime(true);
+
+$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel2007');
+$objWriter->save(str_replace('.php', '.xlsx', __FILE__));
+$callEndTime = microtime(true);
+$callTime = $callEndTime - $callStartTime;
+
+echo date('H:i:s') , " File written to " , str_replace('.php', '.xlsx', pathinfo(__FILE__, PATHINFO_BASENAME)) , EOL;
+echo 'Call time to write Workbook was ' , sprintf('%.4f',$callTime) , " seconds" , EOL;
+// Echo memory usage
+echo date('H:i:s') , ' Current memory usage: ' , (memory_get_usage(true) / 1024 / 1024) , " MB" , EOL;
+
+
+// Save Excel 95 file
+echo date('H:i:s') , " Write to Excel5 format" , EOL;
+$callStartTime = microtime(true);
+
+$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel5');
+$objWriter->save(str_replace('.php', '.xls', __FILE__));
+$callEndTime = microtime(true);
+$callTime = $callEndTime - $callStartTime;
+
+echo date('H:i:s') , " File written to " , str_replace('.php', '.xls', pathinfo(__FILE__, PATHINFO_BASENAME)) , EOL;
+echo 'Call time to write Workbook was ' , sprintf('%.4f',$callTime) , " seconds" , EOL;
+// Echo memory usage
+echo date('H:i:s') , ' Current memory usage: ' , (memory_get_usage(true) / 1024 / 1024) , " MB" , EOL;
+
+
+// Echo memory peak usage
+echo date('H:i:s') , " Peak memory usage: " , (memory_get_peak_usage(true) / 1024 / 1024) , " MB" , EOL;
+
+// Echo done
+echo date('H:i:s') , " Done writing files" , EOL;
+echo 'Files have been created in ' , getcwd() , EOL;
diff --git a/changelog.txt b/changelog.txt
index 587059b2..f8f2170f 100644
--- a/changelog.txt
+++ b/changelog.txt
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ Planned for v1.8.1
- Feature: (bolovincev) Work Item GH-269 - Update Worksheet.php getStyleByColumnAndRow() to allow a range of cells rather than just a single cell
- Feature: (MBaker) - New methods added for testing cell status within merge groups
- Feature: (cifren/MBaker) Work Item GH-205 - Handling merge cells in HTML Reader
+- Feature: (MBaker) - Helper to convert basic HTML markup to a Rich Text object
2014-03-02 (v1.8.0):