Merging cells in Excel by rows and columns together using PHPExcel

Question

I need to merge cells in Excel (xlsx) by rows and again by columns using PHPExcel. I tried the following.

$sheet->mergeCells(\"G\".($row_count+1).\":G\".($row         


        

Answer 1

I was also looking solution for this question. where i want to merge cell and put content (value) on that. After few search i got some solution on this. but did not checked because i am using Maatawebsite for get Excel file.

But any one can try thing.. Solution is based on PHPExcel nit sure ,it will work on Maatawebsite.

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Merge from column A row 1 to column E row 1

$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->mergeCells('A1:E1');

// add some text
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue('A1','The quick brown fox.'); 

Merge from column A row 1 to column E row 3

$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->mergeCells('A1:E3');

// add some text
$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue('A1','The quick brown fox.');

I checked maatawebsite document and they have same method mergeCells. so i think i would be work.

This Solution from Maatawebste.

$sheet->cells('A1:C1', function($cells) {
    $cells->setBorder('thin', 'thin', 'thin', 'thin');
});
$sheet->mergeCells('A1:C1');

Solution 2nd

$sheet->setMergeColumn(array(
'columns' => array('A','B','C','D'),
'rows' => array(
array(2,3),
array(5,11),
)
));