🚀 5 minute quick start

💪 Create an export class in app/Exports

You may do this by using the make:export command.

php artisan make:export UsersExport --model=User

The file can be found in app/Exports:

.
├── app
│   ├── Exports
│   │   ├── UsersExport.php
│ 
└── composer.json

If you prefer to create the export manually, you can create the following in app/Exports:

<?php

namespace App\Exports;

use App\Models\User;
use Maatwebsite\Excel\Concerns\FromCollection;

class UsersExport implements FromCollection
{
    public function collection()
    {
        return User::all();
    }
}

🔥 In your controller you can call this export now:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\Exports\UsersExport;
use Maatwebsite\Excel\Facades\Excel;

class UsersController extends Controller 
{
    public function export() 
    {
        return Excel::download(new UsersExport, 'users.xlsx');
    }
}

And finally add a route to be able to access the export:

Route::get('users/export/', [UsersController::class, 'export']);

📄 Find your users.xlsx in your downloads folder!