PhpSpreadsheet/docs/topics/migration-from-PHPExcel.md

Migration from PHPExcel

PhpSpreadsheet introduced many breaking changes by introducing namespaces and renaming some classes. To help you migrate existing project, a tool was written to replace all references to PHPExcel classes to their new names.

The tool is included in PhpSpreadsheet. It scans recursively all files and directories, starting from the current directory. Assuming it was installed with composer, it can be run like so:

cd /project/to/migrate/src
/project/to/migrate/vendor/phpoffice/phpspreadsheet/bin/migrate-from-phpexcel

Important The tool will irreversibly modify your sources, be sure to backup everything, and double check the result before committing.

Removed deprecated things

In addition to automated changes, usage of deprecated methods must be migrated manually.

Worksheet::duplicateStyleArray()

// Before
$worksheet->duplicateStyleArray($styles, $range, $advanced);

// After
$worksheet->getStyle($range)->applyFromArray($styles, $advanced);

DataType::dataTypeForValue()

// Before
DataType::dataTypeForValue($value);

// After
DefaultValueBinder::dataTypeForValue($value);

Conditional::getCondition()

// Before
$conditional->getCondition();

// After
$conditional->getConditions()[0];

Conditional::setCondition()

// Before
$conditional->setCondition($value);

// After
$conditional->setConditions($value);

Worksheet::getDefaultStyle()

// Before
$worksheet->getDefaultStyle();

// After
$worksheet->getParent()->getDefaultStyle();

Worksheet::setDefaultStyle()

// Before
$worksheet->setDefaultStyle($value);

// After
$worksheet->getParent()->getDefaultStyle()->applyFromArray([
    'font' => [
        'name' => $pValue->getFont()->getName(),
        'size' => $pValue->getFont()->getSize(),
    ],
]);

Worksheet::setSharedStyle()

// Before
$worksheet->setSharedStyle($sharedStyle, $range);

// After
$worksheet->duplicateStyle($sharedStyle, $range);

Worksheet::getSelectedCell()

// Before
$worksheet->getSelectedCell();

// After
$worksheet->getSelectedCells();

Writer\Xls::setTempDir()

// Before
$writer->setTempDir();

// After, there is no way to set temporary storage directory anymore

Autoloader

The class PHPExcel_Autoloader was removed entirely and is replaced by composer autoloading mechanism.

Writing PDF

PHPExcel_Settings::setPdfRenderer() and PHPExcel_Settings::setPdfRenderer() were removed and PDF libraries must be installed via composer. So the only thing to do is to specify a renderer like so:

$rendererName = \PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Settings::PDF_RENDERER_MPDF;
\PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Settings::setPdfRendererName($rendererName);

PclZip and ZipArchive

Support for PclZip were dropped in favor of the more complete and modern PHP extension ZipArchive. So the following were removed:

• PclZip
• PHPExcel_Settings::setZipClass()
• PHPExcel_Settings::getZipClass()
• PHPExcel_Shared_ZipArchive
• PHPExcel_Shared_ZipStreamWrapper

Cell caching

Cell caching was heavily refactored to leverage PSR-16. That means most classes related to that feature were removed:

• PHPExcel_CachedObjectStorage_APC
• PHPExcel_CachedObjectStorage_DiscISAM
• PHPExcel_CachedObjectStorage_ICache
• PHPExcel_CachedObjectStorage_Igbinary
• PHPExcel_CachedObjectStorage_Memcache
• PHPExcel_CachedObjectStorage_Memory
• PHPExcel_CachedObjectStorage_MemoryGZip
• PHPExcel_CachedObjectStorage_MemorySerialized
• PHPExcel_CachedObjectStorage_PHPTemp
• PHPExcel_CachedObjectStorage_SQLite
• PHPExcel_CachedObjectStorage_SQLite3
• PHPExcel_CachedObjectStorage_Wincache

In addition to that, \PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet::getCellCollection() was renamed to \PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet::getCoordinates() and \PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet::getCellCacheController() to \PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet::getCellCollection() for clarity.

Refer to the new documentation to see how to migrate.

Dropped conditionally returned cell

For all the following methods, it is no more possible to change the type of returned value. It always return the Worksheet and never the Cell or Rule:

• Worksheet::setCellValue()
• Worksheet::setCellValueByColumnAndRow()
• Worksheet::setCellValueExplicit()
• Worksheet::setCellValueExplicitByColumnAndRow()
• Worksheet::addRule()

Migration would be similar to:

// Before
$cell = $worksheet->setCellValue('A1', 'value', true);

// After
$cell = $worksheet->getCell('A1')->setValue('value');