How to Install PHPOffice on Linux Mint Latest

PHPOffice is a set of PHP libraries that allows developers to read, write, and modify different file formats such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML and more.

This tutorial will guide you through the process of installing PHPOffice on Linux Mint.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, you need to have the following:

• A Linux Mint Latest system
• Apache web server
• PHP 7.2 or higher
• Git

Step 1 - Install Git

To install Git on Linux Mint, you can use the following command:

sudo apt-get install git

After the installation has finished, you can verify that Git is installed by running:

git --version

Step 2 - Clone PHPOffice from GitHub

To clone PHPOffice from GitHub, you can use the following command:

git clone https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPOffice.git

This will clone the PHPOffice repository into your current directory.

Step 3 - Install Composer

Composer is a PHP package manager that is used to manage dependencies in PHP applications. To install Composer on Linux Mint, you can use the following command:

php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
php composer-setup.php --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer

This will download and install Composer to your system.

Step 4 - Install PHPOffice Dependencies

To install PHPOffice dependencies, change your current directory to the newly cloned PHPOffice directory.

cd PHPOffice

Then, run the following command to install the dependencies:

composer install --no-dev

This will download and install all the required dependencies for PHPOffice.

Step 5 - Verifying PHPOffice Installation

To verify that PHPOffice is installed correctly, create a new PHP file called test.php in your Apache web server root directory.

sudo nano /var/www/html/test.php

Add the following code to the file:

<?php

require_once '/path/to/PHPOffice/vendor/autoload.php';

use PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Spreadsheet;
use PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Writer\Xlsx;

$spreadsheet = new Spreadsheet();
$sheet = $spreadsheet->getActiveSheet();
$sheet->setCellValue('A1', 'Hello World !');

$writer = new Xlsx($spreadsheet);
$writer->save('hello_world.xlsx');

echo "Hello World !";
?>

Replace /path/to/PHPOffice/vendor/autoload.php with the actual path to the PHPOffice vendor autoload file.

Save and close the file.

Now, open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost/test.php.

If everything is installed correctly, you should see a "Hello World !" message on the screen and a new XLSX file called "hello_world.xlsx" will be created in the same directory.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install PHPOffice on Linux Mint Latest. By following the steps outlined in this tutorial, you should now have PHPOffice up and running on your Linux Mint system.