How to convert excel file ".xlsx" to ".xls" using PHP?

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PHP

How to convert excel file from xlsx to xls using PHP?

Answer 1

Made using the PHPExcel library

<?
require_once "xls/Classes/PHPExcel.php";
# Указываем путь до файла .xlsx
$file = "file_name.xlsx";
$name = str_replace('.xlsx', '', $file);
$pExcel = PHPExcel_IOFactory::load($file);
$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($pExcel, 'Excel5');
$objWriter->save($name . '.xls');