I've finally gotten around to releasing v1.0 of the php-excel extension, the list of changes for this release is quite substantial: * Fixed issue #63 writing for NULL values using writeRow() * Added excel.skip_empty INI setting that allows null values to be skipped, if set to 2 the empty strings will be skipped as well * Added Sheet::setRightToLeft() and Sheet::setRightToLeft() methods that specifies whether the sheet in is "right to left" display mode * Added Book::isTemplate() and Book::setTemplate() methods for detecting xltx files and converting from xlsx to xltx and vice versa * Fixed compilation with LibXL 3.5.4 * Added optional scope parameter to setNamedRange()/delNamedRange()/getNamedRange() methods * Updated getNamedRange()/getIndexRange() methods to retrieve hidden state * Added parameter to readRow/readCol/read methods that specifiy whether to parse formula or its value. * Added ExcelBook::packDateValues() method for generating Excel date value * Added ExcelBook::setPrintArea() method for settin...

My slides from the International PHP Conference in Berlin on the topic of "Bottleneck Analysis" are now available for download here: Slides

My slides from the International PHP Conference in Berlin on the topic of " Business Logic Security" are now available for download here: Slides

My slides from the "PHP Excel" talk at Confoo are now available here. If you've attended talk, I'd love to hear it via this blog, just post your replies here. Suggestions on how to improve the extension are welcome as well ;-)

My slides from the "Application Logic Security" talk at Confoo are now available here. If you've attended talk, I'd love to hear it via this blog, just post your replies here.