Laravel Excel , exporting from a model, styling issues
I am trying to export some data from my model to excel scheet with "Laravel excel", I have done it, but my result is far away from what I really need
That is what I`ve got in downloaded file:
And that is what i really want to accomplish:
My controller part:
//casting export...
Excel::create('ExcelExport', function($excel) use($filters, $agents) {
$main_arr = array();
foreach($agents as $value){
$main_arr[] = Card::cardForUser($value, $filters)->toArray();
}
$excel->sheet('Sheetshit', function($sheet) use($main_arr) {
//You may ask me "why are you using foreach?"
// and my answer will be:"I don`t KNOW, because it WORKS!"
foreach($main_arr as $one){
$sheet->fromArray($one);
}
});
})->export('xls');
Model part:
public static function cardForUser($user_id, $filters = array()){
$query = static::UserId($user_id);//just gets 'where user id'
foreach($filters['fields'] as $select){
$query->addSelect($select);
}
return $query->get();
}
public function scopeUserId($query, $user_id) {
return $query->where('user_id', '=', $user_id);
}
$filters array consist of fields names from DB, so it basically decides which columns include in export. That means that my $main_arr may have length of inner fields from 1 to 5. Every agent can have a lot of rows in DB or none at all
Example of $main_arr dump with 4 filters set:
array (size=8)
0 =>
array (size=10)
//thats will be first agent
0 =>
array (size=4)
'date_start' => string '06.08.2014 10:00:00' (length=19)
'ts_category' => int 2
'ts_make' => string 'Chrysler' (length=8)
'ts_model' => string 'PT CRUISER' (length=10)
1 =>
array (size=4)
'date_start' => string '06.08.2014 10:00:00' (length=19)
'ts_category' => int 2
'ts_make' => string 'Opel' (length=4)
'ts_model' => string 'Corsa' (length=5)
2 =>
array (size=4)
'date_start' => string '06.08.2014 10:00:00' (length=19)
'ts_category' => int 2
'ts_make' => string 'Dodge' (length=5)
'ts_model' => string 'Stratus' (length=7)
3 =>
array (size=4)
'date_start' => string '06.08.2014 10:00:00' (length=19)
'ts_category' => int 2
'ts_make' => string 'Р’РђР—' (length=6)
'ts_model' => string '2112' (length=4)
4 =>
array (size=4)
'date_start' => string '06.08.2014 10:00:00' (length=19)
'ts_category' => int 2
'ts_make' => string 'Mercedes-Benz' (length=13)
'ts_model' => string 'E 270' (length=5)
5 =>
array (size=4)
'date_start' => string '06.08.2014 10:00:00' (length=19)
'ts_category' => int 2
'ts_make' => string 'Р’РђР—' (length=6)
'ts_model' => string '21140 LADA SAMARA' (length=17)
6 =>
array (size=4)
'date_start' => string '06.08.2014 10:00:00' (length=19)
'ts_category' => int 2
'ts_make' => string 'LADA' (length=4)
'ts_model' => string '213100 LADA 4С…4' (length=16)
7 =>
array (size=4)
'date_start' => string '06.08.2014 10:00:00' (length=19)
'ts_category' => int 2
'ts_make' => string 'Р’РђР—' (length=6)
'ts_model' => string '21110' (length=5)
8 =>
array (size=4)
'date_start' => string '06.08.2014 10:00:00' (length=19)
'ts_category' => int 2
'ts_make' => string 'Chevrolet' (length=9)
'ts_model' => string 'Lanos' (length=5)
9 =>
array (size=4)
'date_start' => string '06.08.2014 10:00:00' (length=19)
'ts_category' => int 2
'ts_make' => string 'VOLKSWAGEN' (length=10)
'ts_model' => string 'PASSAT' (length=6)
//thats will be second agent
1 =>
array (size=10)
0 =>
array (size=4)
'date_start' => string '06.08.2014 10:00:00' (length=19)
'ts_category' => int 2
'ts_make' => string 'Mercedes' (length=8)
'ts_model' => string 'Benz' (length=4)
1 =>
array (size=4)
'date_start' => string '06.08.2014 10:00:00' (length=19)
'ts_category' => int 2
'ts_make' => string 'Chevrolet' (length=9)
'ts_model' => string 'Corvette' (length=8)
2 =>
array (size=4)
'date_start' => string '06.08.2014 10:00:00' (length=19)
'ts_category' => int 2
'ts_make' => string 'Chevrolet' (length=9)
'ts_model' => string 'Corvette' (length=8)
3 =>
array (size=4)
'date_start' => string '06.08.2014 10:00:00' (length=19)
'ts_category' => int 2
'ts_make' => string 'Chevrolet' (length=9)
'ts_model' => string 'Corvette' (length=8)
4 =>
array (size=4)
'date_start' => string '06.08.2014 10:00:00' (length=19)
'ts_category' => int 2
'ts_make' => string 'Chevrolet' (length=9)
'ts_model' => string 'Corvette' (length=8)
5 =>
array (size=4)
'date_start' => string '06.08.2014 10:00:00' (length=19)
'ts_category' => int 2
'ts_make' => string 'Chevrolet' (length=9)
'ts_model' => string 'Corvette' (length=8)
6 =>
array (size=4)
'date_start' => string '06.08.2014 10:00:00' (length=19)
'ts_category' => int 2
'ts_make' => string 'Mazeratti' (length=9)
'ts_model' => string 'M4' (length=2)
7 =>
array (size=4)
'date_start' => string '06.08.2014 10:00:00' (length=19)
'ts_category' => int 2
'ts_make' => string 'Ferrari' (length=7)
'ts_model' => string 'F4' (length=2)
8 =>
array (size=4)
'date_start' => string '06.08.2014 10:00:00' (length=19)
'ts_category' => int 2
'ts_make' => string 'Mazda' (length=5)
'ts_model' => string '5' (length=1)
9 =>
array (size=4)
'date_start' => string '06.08.2014 10:00:00' (length=19)
'ts_category' => int 2
'ts_make' => string 'Test' (length=4)
'ts_model' => string 'Test' (length=4)
etc...
Sooo... my questions are:
- How do I set main title ("Header stuff" in example img)?
- why do I have my columns headers(date_start, ts_category,ts_make,ts_model) disappear in first array element? (You can see at the first img that I don't have "date start" and "ts_category" headers for first sub-array. BTW sometimes I don`t have headers at all for first sub-array!)
- Can I make my sub-array's headers bold(ts_make, etc)? How?
- How can I make sub-titles for every agent(I planning to use sub-array key to display a number of agent)?
UPDATE Posted working code as answer.
Answer
I won't answer all your questions because you will need to look at documentation on your own. However I will show you how to get such effect:
and I think it will help you more than explaining what you did wrong
The code for above excel file is below:
Excel::create('ExcelExport', function ($excel) {
$excel->sheet('Sheetname', function ($sheet) {
// first row styling and writing content
$sheet->mergeCells('A1:W1');
$sheet->row(1, function ($row) {
$row->setFontFamily('Comic Sans MS');
$row->setFontSize(30);
});
$sheet->row(1, array('Some big header here'));
// second row styling and writing content
$sheet->row(2, function ($row) {
// call cell manipulation methods
$row->setFontFamily('Comic Sans MS');
$row->setFontSize(15);
$row->setFontWeight('bold');
});
$sheet->row(2, array('Something else here'));
// getting data to display - in my case only one record
$users = User::get()->toArray();
// setting column names for data - you can of course set it manually
$sheet->appendRow(array_keys($users[0])); // column names
// getting last row number (the one we already filled and setting it to bold
$sheet->row($sheet->getHighestRow(), function ($row) {
$row->setFontWeight('bold');
});
// putting users data as next rows
foreach ($users as $user) {
$sheet->appendRow($user);
}
});
})->export('xls');