Easily manipulate PhpSpreadsheet, OpenSpout and League CSV

Importing/exporting csv data is a very common task in web development. While it's a very efficient format, it's also somewhat difficult for end users that are used to Excel. This is why you often end up accepting also xlsx format as a import/export target.

Ideally, importing single sheets of csv or excel should be just a matter of changing an adapter. Thankfully, this package does just this :-)

Native php: very fast csv import/export, but limited features. Can read/output streams.

OpenSpout: fast csv and excel import/export https://github.com/openspout/openspout

League CSV: very fast csv import/export. Can read streams. https://github.com/thephpleague/csv

PhpSpreadsheet: slow excel (xls and xlsx) and csv import/export, but more features https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet

SimpleXLSX: very fast excel import/export https://github.com/shuchkin/simplexlsx https://github.com/shuchkin/simplexlsxgen

This package will prioritize installed library, by order of performance. You can also pick your preferred default adapter for each format like this:

SpreadCompat::$preferredCsvAdapter = SpreadCompat::NATIVE; // our native csv adapter is the fastest
SpreadCompat::$preferredXlsxAdapter = SpreadCompat::NATIVE; // our native xlsx adapter is the fastest

While you can use individual adapters, it's very likely you don't want to bother too much how your files are read and written. This package provides a simple facade with static methods in order to read and write files.

Please note that read methods return a Generator. If you want an array, you need to use iterator_to_array.

$data = iterator_to_array(SpreadCompat::read('myfile.csv'));

// or
foreach(SpreadCompat::read('myfile.csv') as $row) {
    // Do something
}

This package includes a simple way to leverage output to browser type of functionnality.

Some adapters allow you to stream directly the response.

SpreadCompat::output('myfile.csv');
exit();

This package accepts options using ...opts, this means you can freely use named arguments or pass an array.

$data = iterator_to_array(SpreadCompat::read('myfile.csv', assoc: true));

// or
$data = iterator_to_array(SpreadCompat::read('myfile.csv', ...$opts));

You can also use the Options class that regroups all available options for all adapters. Unsupported options are ignored.

$options = new Options();
$options->separator = ";";
$data = iterator_to_array(SpreadCompat::read('myfile.csv', $options));

Instead of relying on the static variables, you can choose which adapter to use:

$csvData = SpreadCompat::readString($csv, adapter: SpreadCompat::NATIVE);
// or
$options = new Options();
$options->adapter = SpreadCompat::NATIVE;
$csvData = SpreadCompat::readString($csv, $options);

This package supports only 1 worksheet, as it is meant to be able to replace csv by xlsx or vice versa

Since we can compare our solutions, there is a built in bench script. You can check the results here

• read benchmark
• write benchmark

For simple imports/exports, it's very clear that using the Native adapter is the fastest.

Otherwise, league/csv and shuchkin/simplexlsx are great choices.

Stop wasting cpu cycles right now and please use the most efficient adapter :-)