OpenSpout
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:category:  PHP
:date:      2022-12-22 16:32:00 +0200
:tags:      excel, spreadsheet

I have recently found myself in a situation when 3 out of 4 libraries that I used to work with Excel files were abandoned:

* `akeneo-labs/spreadsheet-parser <https://packagist.org/packages/akeneo-labs/spreadsheet-parser>`__
  (streaming reader) had no commits in 4 years
* `mk-j/php_xlsxwriter <https://packagist.org/packages/mk-j/php_xlsxwriter>`__
  (streaming writer) had no commits in 2 years
* `box/spout <https://packagist.org/packages/box/spout>`__
  (streaming reader/writer) is formally abandoned

Luckily there exists a community fork of Spout called OpenSpout_ and it can replace them all.
It seems pretty popular with 1 mln downloads and 229 stars but it's still less popular than the original
and I managed to find it only by navigating the forks of Spout so I think it just needs more exposure.

.. _OpenSpout: https://packagist.org/packages/openspout/openspout