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phpxlsx Community Edition
phpxlsx Community Edition
The Community Edition is a free, reduced version of phpxlsx for generating Excel spreadsheets. It provides a subset of the features available in the commercial editions.
Community Edition and phpxlsx compared
Compare the free Community Edition with the full phpxlsx library to find the right option for your project.
phpxlsx Community includes the essential tools for generating XLSX spreadsheets with PHP, including workbooks, worksheets, cells, ranges, tables, formulas, styles, links, comments and images.
The commercial packages extend these capabilities with template processing, HTML and CSS conversion, charts, conversion of spreadsheets to PDF, and other formats, merge and unmerge cells, watermarks, encryption, digital signatures, math methods, additional APIs, performance features, and more advanced features for professional spreadsheet management.
| Criteria | phpxlsx Community | phpxlsx |
|---|---|---|
| XLSX CREATION AND CONTENT | ||
| Core XLSX generation | Included | Included with an expanded feature set and additional configuration options. |
| XLSX workbook generation | Included | Included with the full feature set |
| Worksheets, cells and cell ranges | Included | Included with additional options |
| Tables and cell formatting | Included | Included with additional styles and configuration options |
| Spreadsheet functions | Included | Included |
| Links, comments and images | Included | Included with additional options |
| HTML and CSS to Excel | Not included | Available, including extended HTML and CSS features |
| Charts | Not included | 2D, 3D and combination charts, trendlines and more |
| LAYOUT, STYLES AND SETTINGS | ||
| Styles | Included | Included with advanced settings and themes |
| Column, row, cell, sheet, and workbook settings | Included | Included with advanced settings |
| Headers and footers | Not included | Add text and images to headers and footers |
| TEMPLATES AND ADVANCED FEATURES | ||
| Template processing | Not included | Replace placeholders with strings, images and other content |
| CSV import and spreadsheet indexing | Not included | Import CSV files and extract workbook contents and properties |
| Spreadsheet indexing | Not included | Extract workbook contents and properties |
| Merge and unmerge cells | Not included | Merge and unmerge cells |
| XLSX utilities | Not included | Search and replace values, split workbooks and more |
| Watermarks | Not included | Add text and image watermarks |
| Spreadsheet conversion | Not included | Convert XLSX, XLS, ODS, PDF and other formats using the conversion plugin |
| XLSX protection and encryption | Not included | Protect and encrypt XLSX spreadsheets |
| Digital signatures | Not included | Sign XLSX spreadsheets |
| PERFORMANCE | ||
| Performance features | Not included | Optimized spreadsheet processing, in-memory spreadsheets and serialized templates |
| CLI command | Not included | Available for command-line interface |
| APIs | ||
| PHP API with namespaces | Included | Included |
| HTML API | Not included | Create XLSX spreadsheets from HTML |
| JavaScript API | Not included | Work with XLSX spreadsheets using Node.js, web browsers and other JavaScript projects |
| JSON API | Not included | Work with XLSX spreadsheets using JSON |
| SUPPORT AND LICENSING | ||
| Support | Examples and public Community resources | Technical support is included |
| Cost | Free | Commercial licenses available |
| Permitted use | Personal projects, self-learning, individual education, experimentation, evaluation, development and testing | Uses permitted by the selected commercial license |