FAQ.md

Frequently Asked Questions

• PHPSpreadsheet doesn't work
• How to load the simulation output data and fetch the events?

PHPSpreadsheet doesn't work

In order to use this package you must first install Composer and then run the command

composer require phpoffice/phpspreadsheet

You then have to change the autoload.php directory in config.php to the correct path, which in Windows typically looks like:

define('COMPOSER_AUTOLOAD_DIR', 'C:/Users/<USER-NAME>/vendor/autoload.php');

How to load the simulation output data and fetch the events?

In order to load the file contents simply use the standard PHP function file_get_contents which reads the entire content of the file into a string.

To convert that content into an array of Event objects use the method Event::getEvents($simulation_output) (don't forget to include the file 'lib/event.php'). Here's an example from parser.php:

include 'lib/event.php';
include 'lib/table.php';

$simulation_output = file_get_contents(SIM_OUTPUT_FILE_PATH, FALSE); // Load the simulation output

$events = Event::getEvents($simulation_output); // Fetch all the events (creates an array of Event objects)