php_excel for Dockerized Environments

Dockerfile for building dockerized php_excel extension.

Since there is complexity in adding php_excel extension to a dockerized environment we are provide it here. You can refer the manuall setup process here

Using

Images are available with the following tags

• dphadatare/phpexcel:latest

Installation

Add below lines to your dockerfile

COPY --from=dphadatare/phpexcel:latest /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20180731/excel.so /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20180731/
COPY --from=dphadatare/phpexcel:latest /usr/lib/libxl.so /usr/lib/

RUN docker-php-ext-enable excel

Optionaly, we can create the excel.ini file to configure excel, you can refer to the excel.ini file for reference. Copy that file to your repository and use below code line in dockerfile

COPY ./docker/excel.ini /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d/excel.ini

Usage Example

For examples please refer to link here

How to update the images

First update the git repository

• Clone repository to your local PC and add changes to your local branch

$ git clone [email protected]:dphadtare/docker-php-excel.git
$ cd docker-php-excel
$ git checkout staging

• Open the versions-helper.json file if this is a version update
• Update version number
• OR make what ever changes you think will improve the images
• Run the update.sh script once
  • update.sh will generate the dockerfiles for each version specified in version-helper.json by applying the dockerfile.template

$ ./update.sh

• Commit the changes
• Push changes to your branch and create PR

Push images to Docker Hub

• Github actions is used to push images to docker hub