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Package for reading and writing OLE containers

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Download latest release 1.0.1 (there might be newer Composer installable version)

License: PHP

Description

This package allows reading and writing of OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) compound documents. This format is used as container for Excel (.xls), Word (.doc) and other Microsoft file formats.

Maintainers

• Christian Schmidt (schmidt) — lead, active
• Xavier Noguer (xnoguer) — lead, inactive

Dependencies

Required

• PHP (>= 5.6.0)
• PEAR Installer (>= 1.4.0b1)

Releases

• 1.0.1 (stable, 2025-12-14)
  Release notes

  License: PHP

  - (Composer only) fix dependency on pear-core-minimal

• 1.0.0 (stable, 2025-12-14)
  Release notes

  License: PHP

  - Stable release after 9 release candidates
  - Resolved PHP 8 deprecations
  - Full compatibility with PHP 5.6 through PHP 8.2
  - Changes to comply with MS documentation
  - Added type casting improvements
  - Fixed PHP 7.4 compatibility issues

• 1.0.0RC3 (beta, 2017-06-20)
  Release notes

  License: PHP

  Bug #19284: RC2 breaks header in excel files from Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
  Bug #21216: Call to undefined method PEAR::OLE_PPS()

• 1.0.0RC2 (beta, 2012-01-26)
  Release notes

  License: PHP

  QA release
  Bug #15904 Invalid Bigblock chain with files > 200MB
  Bug #17685 OLE doesn't save multistreams

• 1.0.0RC1 (beta, 2008-05-24)
• 0.6.1 (beta, 2007-12-18)
  Release notes

  License: PHP

  - fixed bug #12693: wrong order of require_once
  - added missing file to package: ChainedBlockStream.php

• 0.6.0 (beta, 2007-12-09)
  Release notes

  License: PHP

  Rewrite of parser (no change to writer):
  - Files inside OLE container are now saved in directory structure.
  - Parser now properly uses Big Block, Small Block and Master Block Allocation Tables.
  - Added stream interface for reading files inside OLE container.

  - Bug #6516. Fix "PPS at 1 has unknown type" errors. (Christian Schmidt)
  - Coding Standard cleanups (by helgi)
  - Bug #3951 OLE_PPS_File::init() does not return true on success (by helgi)
  - Bug #3955 OLE::_readPpsWks() does not return true on success (by helgi)

• 0.5 (beta, 2003-12-14)
  Release notes

  License: PHP

  - BC break!!! OLE/OLE.php file moved to OLE.php to comply with PEAR
  standards. You will have to change your require('OLE/OLE.php')'s
  for require('OLE.php')'s
  - If you are using Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer, do not upgrade to this
  version yet. A new version of Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer will be
  released soon so the BC break won't affect you.
  - allowing setting of temp dir for OLE_PPS_File and OLE_PPS_Root objects
  - fixed problem when reading files (not reading the whole OLE tree)

• 0.4 (beta, 2003-09-25)
  Release notes

  License: PHP

  -deleting tmp files (Herman Kuiper).
  -fixed hardcoded tmp dir (Herman Kuiper).
  -fixed pass by reference warning (Herman Kuiper).

• 0.3 (beta, 2003-08-21)
  Release notes

  License: PHP

  -added OLE_PPS_File::init() initialization method.
  -better error handling.

• 0.2.1 (alpha, 2003-05-12)
  Release notes

  License: PHP

  Fixing install dir

• 0.2 (alpha, 2003-05-12)

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