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Gridview with full data export

This works as normal gridview, but adds a button to export the data loaded into it. It exports all records found on the active record query. Works with the same data as the gridview does. Uses phpspreadsheet to generate export file.

How does it work

Following the same behavior that pjax widget, this widget act as a normal gridview until a request is made with the url query parameters export-grid and export-container. The latter should contain the id of gridview without the hashtag. When both parameters are received, response is cleared and then spreadsheet generation begins. This allow to generate a file with absolutely all records found on the gridview.

This project is currently under development. Any contribution is welcome.

Installation

composer require eseperio/yii2-exportable-gridview @dev

Usage

This widget extends from yii2-gridview but add functionality to export all the rows queried by the DataProvider.

use eseperio\gridview\ExportableGridview as GridView;
<?= GridView::widget([
        'dataProvider' => $dataProvider,
        'filterModel' => $searchModel,
        'columns' => [
            ['class' => 'yii\grid\SerialColumn'],
            'id',
            'title',
            'description',
            'author',
        ],
    ]);
    ?>

Additional configuration

Constants available

All writers identifiers are available through constants.

Known issues

• There is a known issue with codeception functional tests where testing export may break other tests if output buffer is not enabled in php.

Notes

All html tags are removed when exporting.

Todo

• Add option to exclude certain columns like ActionColumn.
• Add batch data processing.
• Add custom PDF export method.
• Add tests