How to use PhpSpreadsheet without installation (like PHPExcel)

Question

According to the PhpSpreadsheet Doc it\'s neccessary to install it with composer. In my case I just have a webspace without Terminal but Plesk. Is it anyway possible to use

Answer 1

Have you considered installing composer locally, running it as instructed, and then just sending the generated files to the server via normal FTP? You install composer on your computer and run it there, then upload via FTP/SFP...

Composer is not "necessarily" intended to run live while the user is downloading the pages, it is intended to be run "mainly" on your local computer and generating the files and dependencies that later on you upload to the server. It can update the files on your server, but that is a convenience not a necessity.

Answer 2

By registering custom autoloader and PSR simplecache autoloader it is possible to fully workaround composer installation - see:

https://github.com/PHPOffice/PhpSpreadsheet/issues/31#issuecomment-354502740

Please note, that installation via composer is currently the only officially supported solution.

Answer 3

In your case there are two options for you!

Answer: 1

Alternative method without terminal

Run composer with a PHP script in browser

Answer: 2

Third party sites, which allow to download composer packages online. get PHPspreadsheet latest version.

https://php-download.com/package/phpoffice/phpspreadsheet

Bonus You can download almost any composer packages @ https://php-download.com

Answer 4

Smartpal, thanks for your pack, it works fine!

Also it possible to replace folder:

/phpspreadsheet/vendor/phpoffice/phpspreadsheet/src/

in Smartpal's archive with more fresh sources from phpspreadsheet github and it also will work.

PS: If you have issues with reading xls files saved in encoding other than CP1252, you have to seek literals CP1252 in file ./src/PhpSpreadsheet/Reader/Xls.php and replace them with other value that you need or some named constant or even mb_detect_encoding(). Then it will read such xls correctly.