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

function cellsToMergeByColsRow($start = -1, $end = -1, $row = -1){
    $merge = 'A1:A1';
    if($start>=0 && $end>=0 && $row>=0){
        $start = PHPExcel_Cell::stringFromColumnIndex($start);
        $end = PHPExcel_Cell::stringFromColumnIndex($end);
        $merge = "$start{$row}:$end{$row}";
    }
    return $merge;
}

Addition to the case:

$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->mergeCells(cellsToMergeByColsRow(0,2,3))