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 make a simple function to calc cells to merge by cols and row.

function cellsToMergeByColsRow($start = NULL, $end = NULL, $row = NULL){
    $merge = 'A1:A1';
    if($start && $end && $row){
        $start = PHPExcel_Cell::stringFromColumnIndex($start);
        $end = PHPExcel_Cell::stringFromColumnIndex($end);
        $merge = "$start{$row}:$end{$row}";

    }

    return $merge;
}

And call

$sheet->mergeCells(cellsToMergeByColsRow($col, $col+5, $row));

Thanks @Mark Baker