How to add heading inside excel using export excel in php

Question

I am using php to export data to excel. How can I set custom heading before data inside excel?

header('Content-Type: text/csv');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment;filename=exported-data.csv');

Answer 1

The PHPExcel plugin lets you create .xlsx files etc. using PHP and set the formatting of the output with the PHP script. Plugin is available here: https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPExcel

I've found it fairly easy to setup but have had occasional timeout issues when working with large data sets.