Sand Fox (Posts about excel)https://sandfox.me/tags/excel.xml2024-03-25T17:50:28ZAnton SmirnovNikolaOpenSpouthttps://sandfox.me/php/openspout.html2022-12-22T16:32:00+02:002022-12-22T16:32:00+02:00Anton Smirnov<p>I have recently found myself in a situation when 3 out of 4 libraries that I used to work with Excel files were abandoned:</p>
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<li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://packagist.org/packages/akeneo-labs/spreadsheet-parser">akeneo-labs/spreadsheet-parser</a>
(streaming reader) had no commits in 4 years</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://packagist.org/packages/mk-j/php_xlsxwriter">mk-j/php_xlsxwriter</a>
(streaming writer) had no commits in 2 years</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference external" href="https://packagist.org/packages/box/spout">box/spout</a>
(streaming reader/writer) is formally abandoned</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Luckily there exists a community fork of Spout called <a class="reference external" href="https://packagist.org/packages/openspout/openspout">OpenSpout</a> 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.</p>