PHPOffice is an open-source office suite library for PHP that enables users to create and read documents in various formats, including spreadsheet files, presentation files, and text documents. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing PHPOffice on OpenBSD using Composer.
Before we begin, please ensure that you have the following components installed and configured on your OpenBSD machine:
To get started, you'll need to clone the PHPOffice repository from Github. You can do this in one of two ways:
If you have Git installed on your OpenBSD machine, you can clone the PHPOffice repository by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet.git
If you prefer not to use Git, you can download the PHPOffice repository as a Zip archive directly from the Github repository page. Navigate to https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet in your web browser and click on the green "Code" button. Select "Download ZIP" from the dropdown menu that appears.
Now that you have the PHPOffice repository downloaded to your OpenBSD machine, you can install PHPOffice using Composer.
If you have Composer installed as a Phar file, navigate to the directory that contains the composer.phar file and run the following command:
php composer.phar install
If you installed Composer via the OpenBSD package manager, you can install PHPOffice globally by running the following command:
composer global require phpoffice/phpspreadsheet
To verify that PHPOffice installed correctly, create a new PHP file with the following code:
<?php
require '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 example.php and run it using PHP.
php example.php
If everything was installed correctly, you should see a new file named hello_world.xlsx in your current directory. If you open this file, you should see the text "Hello World!" in cell A1.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed and tested PHPOffice on OpenBSD.
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