Laravel 4 Export Excel Multidimensional Query Result - excel

Question

I'm trying to get PHPExcel (rather, the Laravel wrapper for it: https://github.com/Maatwebsite/Laravel-Excel ) to export my view. The query I'm running returns multiple rows as a multidimensional array (I'm using DB::select and binding that way because the query is a bit complex for Fluent)
The results look like this:
array(3) {
[0]=> object(stdClass)#224 (3) {
["name"]=> string(13) "Administrator"
["TotalRequest"]=> string(6) "100.00"
["TotalGiven"]=> string(6) "150.00" }
[1]=> object(stdClass)#226 (3) {
["name"]=> string(14) "Beta Alpha Psi"
["TotalRequest"]=> string(6) "363.00"
["TotalGiven"]=> string(6) "200.00" }
[2]=> object(stdClass)#227 (3) {
["name"]=> string(30) "Student Government Association"
["TotalRequest"]=> string(7) "1225.00"
["TotalGiven"]=> string(6) "620.00" }
}
The Laravel-Excel package only takes in a $data array(), so I'm confused how to convert my multi-dimensional array into my view. I can get it to work if I use the alternative
View::make(xxxx)->with('example', $example)
Am I overlooking how to pass $data as an array when I have objects involved in this?

Answer 1

It's not a multi-dimensional array but an array of objects. If you pass the array to your view using something like this:
View::make('xxxx')->with('example', $example)
Then in your view you may loop it using #foreach, like this:
#foreach($example as $item)
{{ $item->name }}
{{ $item->TotalRequest }}
{{ $item->TotalGiven }}
#endforeach
Because, the array contains multiple stdClass objects and the first object is (0):
{
["name"]=> string(13) "Administrator"
["TotalRequest"]=> string(6) "100.00"
["TotalGiven"]=> string(6) "150.00"
}
So, you may also retrieve the first object from the $example array using something like $example[0] and to retrieve the second object you may use $example[1] and so on.

Answer 2

Well I Would suggest you simply change the Fetch Mode to return an array directly using a method like the one below
public function getQueryResult($returnQueryAs = null)'
{
$tablename = 'YourAwesomeTable';
if($returnQueryAs == 'array')
{
DB::connection()->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
}
return DB::table($tablename)->get();
}
then do something like this
public function exportAsExcel()
{
$filename = 'nameoffile';
$data = $this->getQueryResult($as = 'array');
Excel::create($filename, function($excel) use ($filename, $data) {
// Set the title
$excel->setTitle($filename);
// Chain the setters
$excel->setCreator('Damilola Ogunmoye');
$excel->sheet('SHEETNAME', function($sheet) use ($data) {
$sheet->fromArray($data);
});
})->download('xls');
}
This Would get an associative array as opposed to an stdClass object which you can pass directly.