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Asked: 2026-06-06T17:26:57+00:00

i have a strange issue with phpexcel on a pair of formulas and can’t

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i have a strange issue with phpexcel on a pair of formulas and can’t figure the source of the problem. (Other simple math formulas work, only this fails).

Since the php report is quite long i’ll get straight to the point.

Setting this formula like this

$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->setCellValue("D$cuenta_empleados", "=$'asientos_title'.K$cuadro_row" );

Throws me this

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'INPUT NOMINA Agosto!D8 -> Formula Error: An unexpected error occured' in /Users/PolCPP/Documents/Proyectos/Activos/beneficiat/php/inc/PHPExcel/Cell.php:293 Stack trace:
 #0 /Users/PolCPP/Documents/Proyectos/Activos/beneficiat/php/inc/PHPExcel/Writer/Excel5/Worksheet.php(455): PHPExcel_Cell->getCalculatedValue() 
 #1 /Users/PolCPP/Documents/Proyectos/Activos/beneficiat/php/inc/PHPExcel/Writer/Excel5.php(194): PHPExcel_Writer_Excel5_Worksheet->close() 
 #2 /Users/PolCPP/Documents/Proyectos/Activos/beneficiat/php/classes/Everything.class.php(2361): PHPExcel_Writer_Excel5->save('../../reports/1...') 
 #3 /Users/PolCPP/Documents/Proyectos/Activos/beneficiat/php/classes/Everything.class.php(3813): Everything->create_act_entry(Array, Array, Array, Array, Array) 
 #4 /Users/PolCPP/Documents/Proyectos/Activos/beneficiat/controllers/common/generar.php(68): Everything->gen_docs(Array, Array, Array) 
 #5 {main} thrown in /Users/PolCPP/Documents/Proyectos/Activos/beneficiat/php/inc/PHPExcel/Cell.php on line 293

So to debug it i remove the = to avoid it’s calculation. I check it on openoffice. And i see 

'ASIENTOS Agosto'.K4

And adding the = in front of it works.

The second formula i have issues it’s a condition one (same issue, it can generate it but it works on php)

=IF(D22>O22;D22-O22;0)
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  1. Editorial Team

    The developer documentation states that you need to us US/UK separators in formulae.

    Quoting:

    4.6.4. Write a formula into a cell

    Inside the Excel file, formulas are always stored as they would appear in an English version of Microsoft
    Office Excel, and PHPExcel handles all formulae internally in this
    format. This means that the following rules hold:

    • Decimal separator
    is ‘.’ (period)

    • Function argument separator is ‘,’ (comma)

    • Matrix
    row separator is ‘;’ (semicolon)

    • English function names must be used

    This is regardless of which language version of Microsoft Office Excel
    may have been used to create the Excel file.

    so 

    =IF(D22>O22,D22-O22,0)

    rather than

    =IF(D22>O22;D22-O22;0)

    The only exception that applies is if you have set locale settings for formulae as described in section 4.6.5 of that document

    The separator for a worksheet in a cell reference is the exclamation mark:

    'ASIENTOS Agosto'!K4

    not

    'ASIENTOS Agosto'.K4
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