avadim/fast-excel-helper
Helper for avadim/fast-excel-reader and avadim/fast-excel-writer
v1.4.0
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Last release 7 days ago
16 Aug 2026
Release timing varies
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Rarely documented
notes for 3 of 15 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
3 years old
15 releases · first in 2023
1 release in the last 12 months
see the full history below
Release timeline
14 releases · Oct 2023 to Aug 2026Releases
latest 15-
v1.4.016 Aug 2026Release notes
Open source →Added
isAddress()andisRange()check that an address exists:rangeArray()parses a syntax and says nothing about the borders of a sheet, these two doescapeString()encodes control characters with its second argument, so a text becomes a complete ST_Xstring. CR is encoded, TAB and LF are left as they are- PHP 8.5 is supported officially, the tests run on PHP 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 and 8.5 (ubuntu and windows)
Fixed
colLetterRange()returned an empty array for an address containing a zero digit:'B10:E20'and'10:30'inRange()did not accept a single cell as a range:inRange('B2', 'B2')gave a warning andfalsergbToHsl()did not acceptAARRGGBB, while xlsx keeps colors in ARGB, and it produced warnings on an unparseable colorshiftAddress()built a broken address such as'-4'when a cell was shifted out of a sheet,addToRange()did the same for a relative rangeaddToRange($cell, $range, true)returned an array whererange,range_absand*_cell_absdescribed the range before it was extended, whilemax_celldescribed it aftercolNumber()returned the number of the real columnXFDfor a column out of a sheet:'XFE'and'ZZZ'gave16384correctColor($color, 0)returned a neighbour color instead of the given one, 6 of 12 checked colors were shifted- an input that cannot be parsed produced a warning or a
TypeErrorinA1toRC(),RCtoA1(),shiftAddress(),shiftAddressRC(),addToRange()andinRange(), a neutral result is returned now - the cache of
colNumber()grew without a limit, taking about 6 MB per 200000 calls while reading a sheet cell by cell
Changed
Worth a look while upgrading, these results are different now:
Call Before Now colNumber('XFE')16384-1inRange('B2:Z99', 'B2:C3')truefalse, a range must fit entirelyaddToRange('junk', 'B2:D4')TypeError''correctColor('#FFC000', -0.249977111117893)'#bf8f00''#bf9000'rgbToHsl(...)['h']intdegreesfloatdegreesrowNumber()?intint, it never returnednullThe palette of Excel cannot be reproduced exactly by any documented algorithm: the base of 240 and of 255, quantized HLS and a literal port of the integer Win32
RGBToHLSwere compared on 14 colors of the Office theme, the best result is 9 of 14 and every miss is one unit in a channel. A color kept by a zero tint is taken as the criterion instead. -
v1.3.001 Jun 2025Nothing published for this version
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v1.2.306 Feb 2025Nothing published for this version
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v1.2.231 Oct 2024Release notes
Open source →Merge pull request #3 from brainfoolong/php-8.4-fixes
fixed php 8.4 warning
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v1.2.106 Sep 2024Nothing published for this version
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v1.2.015 May 2024Release notes
Open source →upd: A1toRC(); RCtoA1(); shiftAddress(); shiftAddressRC(); rangeRelOf…
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v1.1.110 Apr 2024Nothing published for this version
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v1.1.0no dateNothing published for this version
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v1.0.609 Apr 2024Nothing published for this version
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v1.0.504 Nov 2023Nothing published for this version
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v1.0.403 Nov 2023Nothing published for this version
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v1.0.303 Nov 2023Nothing published for this version
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v1.0.226 Oct 2023Nothing published for this version
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v1.0.125 Oct 2023Nothing published for this version
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v1.0.018 Oct 2023Nothing published for this version