Conditional format

Conditional formatting applies styles or visualisations to cells whose values match a rule. Common use cases:

• Highlight cells that match a condition (e.g. paint the background red when the value is greater than 50)
• Draw data bars inside cells to compare magnitudes at a glance
• Apply a colour scale gradient across a range
• Mark buckets with an icon set such as a three-colour traffic light
• Filter cells by built-in rules: text / dates / duplicates / top-N / bottom-N

xlswriter builds a rule with Vtiful\Kernel\ConditionalFormat, then attaches it to a worksheet via Excel::conditionalFormatCell or Excel::conditionalFormatRange.

Methods

Excel::conditionalFormatCell(string $rangeA1, \Vtiful\Kernel\ConditionalFormat $cf): self
Excel::conditionalFormatRange(string $rangeA1, \Vtiful\Kernel\ConditionalFormat $cf): self

string $rangeA1

A single cell or a range in A1 notation, e.g. "A1", "A1:A10", "B2:D8".

\Vtiful\Kernel\ConditionalFormat $cf

A rule object built with new \Vtiful\Kernel\ConditionalFormat() and configured via chained calls. Pass the object itself; there is no toResource() step.

Quick start

The example below highlights every cell in A2:A4 whose value is greater than 50 with a red background and white font:

$config = ['path' => './tests'];
$excel  = new \Vtiful\Kernel\Excel($config);

$fileObject = $excel->fileName('tutorial.xlsx');
$fileHandle = $fileObject->getHandle();

// Style applied when the rule matches
$highlight = (new \Vtiful\Kernel\Format($fileHandle))
    ->background(\Vtiful\Kernel\Format::COLOR_RED)
    ->fontColor(\Vtiful\Kernel\Format::COLOR_WHITE)
    ->toResource();

// Build the rule: cell type + greater than 50 + apply $highlight
$cf = new \Vtiful\Kernel\ConditionalFormat();
$cf->type(\Vtiful\Kernel\ConditionalFormat::TYPE_CELL)
   ->criteria(\Vtiful\Kernel\ConditionalFormat::CRITERIA_GREATER_THAN)
   ->value(50)
   ->format($highlight);

$fileObject->header(['score'])
    ->data([[10], [60], [80]])
    ->conditionalFormatRange('A2:A4', $cf)
    ->output();

Pages in this chapter

Page	Topic
Single cell rule	Apply one rule to a single cell
Range rule	Apply one rule to an A1 range
Data bar	Data bar configuration
Icon set	Icon set configuration
Multi range	Apply one rule across non-contiguous ranges
Type constants	TYPE_* constants
Criteria constants	CRITERIA_* constants