Question

I am using phpexcelreader:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpexcelreader/

And It is working nicely compared to all the others I tried, But I am struggling to find a way to get background colors of the cells, or any color formatting to be honest.

Does anyone know of how to do this with this class, or, how to add it into this class?

It can’t be too hard, surely?

Answer 1

Assuming that $data is the phpExcelReader object you can use:

$data->bgColor($row,$col,$sheet=0);

which is returned in #FFFFFF format.

I think you can find some good docs here: http://code.google.com/p/php-excel-reader/wiki/Documentation

From user comments, the updated syntax is:

$bgcolor = $xls->colors[$xls->bgColor($y,$x,$sheet)];

which is not covered in the docs.