Fast Excel import/export for Laravel, thanks to Spout. See benchmarks below.
Install via composer:
composer require Halalsoft/fast-excel Export a Model to .xlsx file:
use Halalsoft\FastExcel\FastExcel; use App\User; // Load users $users = User::all(); // Export all users (new FastExcel($users))->export('file.xlsx');Export a Model or a Collection:
$list = collect([ [ 'id' => 1, 'name' => 'Jane' ], [ 'id' => 2, 'name' => 'John' ], ]); (new FastExcel($list))->export('file.xlsx');Export xlsx, ods and csv:
$invoices = App\Invoice::orderBy('created_at', 'DESC')->get(); (new FastExcel($invoices))->export('invoices.csv');Export only some attributes specifying columns names:
(new FastExcel(User::all()))->export('users.csv', function ($user) { return [ 'Email' => $user->email, 'First Name' => $user->firstname, 'Last Name' => strtoupper($user->lastname), ]; });Download (from a controller method):
return (new FastExcel(User::all()))->download('file.xlsx');import returns a Collection:
$collection = (new FastExcel)->import('file.xlsx');Import a csv with specific delimiter, enclosure characters and "gbk" encoding:
$collection = (new FastExcel)->configureCsv(';', '#', 'gbk')->import('file.csv');Import and insert to database:
$users = (new FastExcel)->import('file.xlsx', function ($line) { return User::create([ 'name' => $line['Name'], 'email' => $line['Email'] ]); });You may use FastExcel with the optional Facade. Add the following line to config/app.php under the aliases key.
'FastExcel' => Halalsoft\FastExcel\Facades\FastExcel::class,Using the Facade, you will not have access to the constructor. You may set your export data using the data method.
$list = collect([ [ 'id' => 1, 'name' => 'Jane' ], [ 'id' => 2, 'name' => 'John' ], ]); FastExcel::data($list)->export('file.xlsx');FastExcel provides a convenient global helper to quickly instantiate the FastExcel class anywhere in a Laravel application.
$collection = fastexcel()->import('file.xlsx'); fastexcel($collection)->export('file.xlsx');Export multiple sheets by creating a SheetCollection:
$sheets = new SheetCollection([ User::all(), Project::all() ]); (new FastExcel($sheets))->export('file.xlsx');Use index to specify sheet name:
$sheets = new SheetCollection([ 'Users' => User::all(), 'Second sheet' => Project::all() ]);Import multiple sheets by using importSheets:
$sheets = (new FastExcel)->importSheets('file.xlsx');You can also import a specific sheet by its number:
$users = (new FastExcel)->sheet(3)->import('file.xlsx');Import multiple sheets with sheets names:
$sheets = (new FastExcel)->withSheetsNames()->importSheets('file.xlsx');Export rows one by one to avoid memory_limit issues using yield:
function usersGenerator() { foreach (User::cursor() as $user) { yield $user; } } // Export consumes only a few MB, even with 10M+ rows. (new FastExcel(usersGenerator()))->export('test.xlsx');Add header and rows style with headerStyle and rowsStyle methods.
$header_style = (new StyleBuilder())->setFontBold()->build(); $rows_style = (new StyleBuilder()) ->setFontSize(15) ->setShouldWrapText() ->setBackgroundColor("EDEDED") ->build(); return (new FastExcel($list)) ->headerStyle($header_style) ->rowsStyle($rows_style) ->download('file.xlsx');FastExcel is intended at being Laravel-flavoured Spout: a simple, but elegant wrapper around Spout with the goal of simplifying imports and exports. It could be considered as a faster (and memory friendly) alternative to Laravel Excel, with less features. Use it only for simple tasks.
Tested on a MacBook Pro 2015 2,7 GHz Intel Core i5 16 Go 1867 MHz DDR3. Testing a XLSX export for 10000 lines, 20 columns with random data, 10 iterations, 2018-04-05. Don't trust benchmarks.
| Average memory peak usage | Execution time | |
|---|---|---|
| Laravel Excel | 123.56 M | 11.56 s |
| FastExcel | 2.09 M | 2.76 s |
Still, remember that Laravel Excel has many more features.