Updated

CHANGELOG

@@ -10,8 +10,11 @@
 -	Workbook: add toString() method to return the workbook binary data as a string.
 -	Modified to act as a drop-in compatible replacement for PEAR's Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer, as far as I need:
 	*	format: make setting fonts with set_properties() compatible with PEAR's Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer.
-	*	workbook: add setCustomColor() method (as alias of set_custom_color).
+	*	workbook: add alias method setCustomColor().
 	*	workbook: add send() method.
+	*	spreadsheet: add alias methods setMerge(), setColumn(), writeFormula(), writeNumber(), writeString(), writeUrl().
+-	Worksheet: add getDimensions() method.
+-	Worksheet: Fix some warnings. Fix bug (mistake porting from Perl) setting $grbit in _store_colinfo().
 
 0.3.0 (2005-11-01):
 - Fixed cell merging (fix contributed by Nicolas Kahn - thanks!)

README

@@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ Where to start
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 I've included six example PHP scripts which are also taken out of the
 Spreadsheet::WriteExcel package and ported to PHP:
-- example-simple.php
-- example-merge2.php
-- example-stocks.php
-- example-textwrap.php
-- example-demo.php
-- example-bigfile.php
+- examples/simple.php
+- examples/merge2.php
+- examples/stocks.php
+- examples/textwrap.php
+- examples/demo.php
+- examples/bigfile.php
 All you have to do is to tar xzvf the package to a directory accessible
 via a web server. Then fetch any of the example scripts with your
 favourite web browser and Excel should come into place and show you
@@ -115,3 +115,16 @@ Syntax different from SpreadSheet::WriteExcel
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 The worksheet methods set_h_pagebreaks() and set_v_pagebreaks() take
 exactly one argument which must be an array with the desired page breaks.
+
+
+
+Perfomance comparison (added by Craig Manley, 2015-12-06)
+---------------------------------------------------------
+Writing a table of 8 fields and 950 rows to an Excel file resulted in these average elapsed times:
+PHPExcel: 7.417
+PEAR Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer: 1.078
+php_writeexcel: 2.065
+
+So clearly, PEAR's Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer is almost twice as fast.
+PHPExcel more modern, but by far the slowest and consumes huge amounts of memory,
+which is the only reason I tried with this library, updating it slightly in the process.