Articles tagged: #phpspreadsheet

Laravel Excel runs out of memory on a large export not because of your code but because of PhpSpreadsheet's architecture. Here is why chunking does not save you, and how streaming export through cursor() keeps memory flat.

You need Excel in PHP, and the very first search result is PhpSpreadsheet — universal, heavy, and not always the right fit. Let's sort out what kinds of Excel tasks actually exist (reading, writing, templates) and how to tell which one is yours, so you don't haul in a combine harvester where a screwdriver would do.