PHPOffice is a set of libraries for working with various file formats, including spreadsheets, presentations, and text documents, in PHP. This tutorial will guide you through the installation of PHPOffice on Arch Linux.
PHPOffice requires some dependencies to be installed on your system. Open the terminal and enter the following command to install the required packages:
sudo pacman -S php php-gd php-zip php-iconv php-xmlreader php-pclzip
Visit the PHPOffice GitHub page at https://github.com/PHPOffice/ and download the latest version of PHPOffice by clicking on the "Code" dropdown and selecting "Download ZIP". Alternatively, you can use the following command to download and extract the latest version of PHPOffice:
wget https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
This will download the latest version of PHPOffice and extract it to the PhpSpreadsheet-master directory.
To use PHPOffice, you'll need to move the PhpSpreadsheet-master directory to your web server. If you're using Apache, move the PhpSpreadsheet-master directory to /srv/http/:
sudo mv PhpSpreadsheet-master /srv/http/
To test that PHPOffice has been installed correctly, create a new PHP file with the following code:
<?php
require_once '/srv/http/PhpSpreadsheet-master/vendor/autoload.php';
use PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Spreadsheet;
use PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Writer\Xlsx;
$spreadsheet = new Spreadsheet();
$sheet = $spreadsheet->getActiveSheet();
$sheet->setCellValue('A1', 'Hello World!');
$writer = new Xlsx($spreadsheet);
$writer->save('hello_world.xlsx');
Save the file as test.php in your web server's document root, which is located at /srv/http/ if you're using Apache. Visit http://localhost/test.php in your web browser to run the PHP file.
If everything is working correctly, you should see a new Excel file called hello_world.xlsx in the same directory as your PHP file. Open the file to ensure that it contains the text "Hello World!".
Congratulations, you have successfully installed PHPOffice on Arch Linux!
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