I'm exporting data from a MySQL DB to Excel using PHPSpreadsheet. The spreadsheet is working fine, the data is exporting correctly, however, the numbers are being stored as text. I can get PHPSpreadsheet to convert the cell to a number, but the number is still stored as text.
use PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Spreadsheet;
use PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Writer\Xlsx;
use PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Style\NumberFormat;
$spreadsheet = new Spreadsheet();
$sheet = $spreadsheet->getActiveSheet();
$sheet->setCellValue('A1', 'Reference');
$sheet->setCellValue('B1', 'Project Name');
$sheet->setCellValue('C1', 'Value');
$sheet->setCellValue('D1', 'Sales Rep');
$sheet->setCellValue('E1', 'Stage');
if ($totalrows_lpr > 0) {
$i =1;
while ($row_lpr = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result_lpr)) {
$i++;
$projectID = $row_lpr['projectID'];
$projectRef = $row_lpr['projectRef'];
$projectName = $row_lpr['projectName'];
$value = projectvalue2($projectID);
$staffName = $row_lpr['firstName'] . " " . $row_lpr['surname'];
$stageName = $row_lpr['stageName'];
$sheet->setCellValue('A'.$i , $projectRef);
$sheet->setCellValue('B'.$i , $projectName);
$sheet->setCellValue('C'.$i , $value);
$sheet->getStyle('C'.$i)->getNumberFormat()->setFormatCode('#,##0.00');
$sheet->setCellValue('D'.$i , $staffName);
$sheet->setCellValue('E'.$i , $stageName);
}
}
The code for the function (projectvalue2):
$sql_pv = "SELECT MAX(productTotal)
FROM
( SELECT SUM(productTotal) AS productTotal
FROM quote_items
LEFT JOIN quote_details
ON quote_items.quoteID = quote_details.quoteID
WHERE quote_items.projectID = $projectID AND quote_details.visible = 1
GROUP BY quote_items.quoteID
)
quote_items
";
The number is formatted correctly with thousand separators and 2 decimal points. If the cell has a zero value as in no data from the database then it is stored as a number in the cell.
