Laravel CSV

PHP Laravel package to create CSV files in a memory-optimized way.

Description

Generate CSV files from any of these data sources: PHP arrays, Laravel Collections or Laravel Queries. You can either prompt the user to download the file or store it in a Laravel disk. For larger datasets, you can generate the file in background as a Laravel Job.

This project was inspired on https://github.com/maatwebsite/Laravel-Excel which is a great project and can handle many formats (Excel, PDF, OpenOffice and CSV). But since it uses PhpSpreadsheet, it is not optimized for exporting large CSV files (thousands of records) causing the PHP memory exhaustion.

The memory usage is optimized in this project by retrieving small chunks of results at a time and outputting the CSV content directly to the client browser or to a persistent file with the use of PHP streams.

This project is using some of Laravel-Excel design principles because it is both a solid work and a reference, and by doing that, it also reduces the learning curve and adoption to this library.

Requirements

• PHP >= 8.0
• Laravel >= 6.x

Installation

Step 1) Add composer dependency

composer require vitorccs/laravel-csv

Step 2) Publish the config file

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Vitorccs\LaravelCsv\ServiceProviders\CsvServiceProvider" --tag=config

Step 3) Edit your local config\csv.php file per your project preferences

Step 4) Create an Export class file as shown below

Note: you may implement FromArray, FromCollection or FromQuery

namespace App\Exports;

use App\User;
use Vitorccs\LaravelCsv\Concerns\Exportable;
use Vitorccs\LaravelCsv\Concerns\FromQuery;

class UsersExport implements FromQuery
{
    use Exportable;
    
    public function query()
    {
        return User::query();
    }
}

Step 5) The file can now be generated by using a single line:

# prompt the client browser to download the file 
return (new UsersExport)->download('users.csv');

In case you want the file to be stored in the disk:

# will save the file in 's3' disk
return (new UsersExport)->store('users.csv', 's3');

For larger files, you may want to generate the file in background as a Laravel Job

# generate a {uuid-v4}.csv filename
$filename = CsvHelper::filename();

# will create a job to create and store the file in disk
# and afterwards notify the user
(new BillsExport())
    ->queue($filename, 's3')
    ->allOnQueue('default')
    ->chain([
        new NotifyCsvCreated($filename)
    ]);

Data sources

Note: only FromQuery can chunk results per chunk_size parameter from config file.

Laravel Eloquent Query Builder

namespace App\Exports;

use App\User;
use Vitorccs\LaravelCsv\Concerns\Exportable;
use Vitorccs\LaravelCsv\Concerns\FromQuery;

class MyQueryExport implements FromQuery
{
    use Exportable;
    
    public function query()
    {
        return User::query();
    }
}

Laravel Database Query Builder

namespace App\Exports;

use App\User;
use Vitorccs\LaravelCsv\Concerns\Exportable;
use Vitorccs\LaravelCsv\Concerns\FromQuery;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB;

class MyQueryExport implements FromQuery
{
    use Exportable;
    
    public function query()
    {
        return DB::table('users');
    }
}

Laravel Collection

namespace App\Exports;

use Vitorccs\LaravelCsv\Concerns\Exportable;
use Vitorccs\LaravelCsv\Concerns\FromCollection;

class MyCollectionExport implements FromCollection
{
    use Exportable;
    
    public function collection()
    {
        return collect([
            ['a1', 'b1', 'c1'],
            ['a2', 'b2', 'c2'],
            ['a3', 'b3', 'c3']
        ]);
    }
}

Laravel LazyCollection

namespace App\Exports;

use App\User;
use Vitorccs\LaravelCsv\Concerns\Exportable;
use Vitorccs\LaravelCsv\Concerns\FromCollection;

class MyQueryExport implements FromCollection
{
    use Exportable;
    
    public function collection()
    {
        return User::cursor();
    }
}

PHP Arrays

namespace App\Exports;

use Vitorccs\LaravelCsv\Concerns\Exportable;
use Vitorccs\LaravelCsv\Concerns\FromArray;

class MyArrayExport implements FromArray
{
    use Exportable;
    
    public function array(): array
    {
        return [
            ['a1', 'b1', 'c1'],
            ['a2', 'b2', 'c2'],
            ['a3', 'b3', 'c3']
        ];
    }
}

Implementations

Headings

WithHeadings adds a heading row

use Vitorccs\LaravelCsv\Concerns\Exportable;
use Vitorccs\LaravelCsv\Concerns\FromArray;
use Vitorccs\LaravelCsv\Concerns\WithHeadings;

class UsersExport implements FromArray, WithHeadings
{
    use Exportable;
    
    public function headings(): array
    {
        return ['ID', 'Name', 'Email'];
    }
}

Mapping rows

Implement WithMapping if you either need to set the value of each column or apply some custom formatting.

use Vitorccs\LaravelCsv\Concerns\Exportable;
use Vitorccs\LaravelCsv\Concerns\FromArray;
use Vitorccs\LaravelCsv\Concerns\WithMapping;

class UsersExport implements FromArray, WithMapping
{
    use Exportable;
    
    public function map($user): array
    {
        return [
            $user->id,
            $user->name,
            $user->email ?: 'N/A'
        ];
    }
}

Formatting columns

Implement WithColumnFormatting to format Date and Number fields. Note: The Date must be a Carbon or Datetime object, and the number must be numeric string, integer or float. The formatting preferences are set in the config file csv.php.

use Vitorccs\LaravelCsv\Concerns\Exportable;
use Vitorccs\LaravelCsv\Concerns\FromArray;
use Vitorccs\LaravelCsv\Concerns\WithColumnFormatting;
use Vitorccs\LaravelCsv\Enum\CellFormat;
use Carbon\Carbon;

class UsersExport implements FromArray, WithColumnFormatting
{
    use Exportable;
    
    public function array(): array
    {
        return [
            [ Carbon::now(), Carbon::now(), 2.50, 1.00 ],
            [ new DateTime(), new DateTime(), 3, 2.00 ]
        ];
    }
    
    public function columnFormats(): array
    {
        return [
            'A' => CellFormat::DATE,
            'B' => CellFormat::DATETIME,
            'C' => CellFormat::DECIMAL,
            'D' => CellFormat::INTEGER,
        ];
    }
}

Limiting the results

Implement the method below if you need to limit the quantity of results.

use Vitorccs\LaravelCsv\Concerns\Exportable;
use Vitorccs\LaravelCsv\Concerns\FromQuery;

class UsersExport implements FromQuery
{
    use Exportable;
    
    public function limit(): ?int
    {
        return 5000;
    }
}

License

Released under the MIT License.