Reading an Excel file in PHP

Php Problem Overview

I'm trying to read an Excel file (Office 2003). There is an Excel file that needs to be uploaded and its contents parsed.

Via Google, I can only find answers to these related (and insufficient topics): generating Excel files, reading Excel XML files, reading Excel CSV files, or incomplete abandoned projects. I own Office 2003 so if I need any files from there, they are available. It's installed on my box but isn't and can't be installed on my shared host.

Edit: so far all answers point to https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpexcelreader/">PHP-ExcelReader</a> and/or https://devzone.zend.com/27/reading-and-writing-spreadsheets-with-php/">this additional article about how to use it.

Php Solutions

Solution 1 - Php

You have 2 choices as far as I know:

Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader, which knows the Office 2003 binary format
PHPExcel, which knows both Office 2003 as well as Excel 2007 (XML). (Follow the link, and you'll see they upgraded this library to PHPSpreadSheet)

PHPExcel uses Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader for the Office 2003 format.

Update: I once had to read some Excel files but I used the Office 2003 XML format in order to read them and told the people that were using the application to save and upload only that type of Excel file.

Solution 2 - Php

I use PHP-ExcelReader to read xls files, and works great.

Solution 3 - Php

Read XLSX (Excel 2003+)
https://github.com/shuchkin/simplexlsx

if ( $xlsx = SimpleXLSX::parse('book.xlsx') ) {
    print_r( $xlsx->rows() );
} else {
    echo SimpleXLSX::parseError();
}

Output

Array (
[0] => Array
(
[0] => ISBN
[1] => title
[2] => author
[3] => publisher
[4] => ctry
)
[1] => Array
(
[0] => 618260307
[1] => The Hobbit
[2] => J. R. R. Tolkien
[3] => Houghton Mifflin
[4] => USA
)
)

Read XLS (Excel 97-2003)
https://github.com/shuchkin/simplexls

if ( $xls = SimpleXLS::parse('book.xls') ) {
    print_r( $xls->rows() );
} else {
    echo SimpleXLS::parseError();
}

CSV php reader
https://github.com/shuchkin/simplecsv

if ( $csv = SimpleCSV::import('book.csv') ) {
    print_r( $csv );
}

Solution 4 - Php

It depends on how you want to use the data in the excel file. If you want to import it into mysql, you could simply save it as a CSV formatted file and then use fgetcsv to parse it.

Solution 5 - Php

Try this...

I have used following code to read "xls and xlsx"

    <?php
    include 'excel_reader.php';       // include the class
    $excel = new PhpExcelReader;      // creates object instance of the class
    $excel->read('excel_file.xls');   // reads and stores the excel file data
    
    // Test to see the excel data stored in $sheets property
    echo '<pre>';
    var_export($excel->sheets);

    echo '</pre>';

    or 

 echo '<pre>';
    print_r($excel->sheets);

    echo '</pre>';

Reference:http://coursesweb.net/php-mysql/read-excel-file-data-php_pc

Solution 6 - Php

// Here is the simple code using COM object in PHP
class Excel_ReadWrite{

    private $XLSHandle;
    private $WrkBksHandle;
    private $xlBook;
    
    function __construct() {
        $this->XLSHandle = new COM("excel.application") or die("ERROR: Unable to instantaniate COM!\r\n"); 
    }
    
    function __destruct(){
        //if already existing file is opened
        if($this->WrkBksHandle != null)
        {   
            $this->WrkBksHandle->Close(True);
            unset($this->WrkBksHandle);
            $this->XLSHandle->Workbooks->Close();
        }
        //if created new xls file
        if($this->xlBook != null)
        {
            $this->xlBook->Close(True);
            unset($this->xlBook);
        }
        //Quit Excel Application
        $this->XLSHandle->Quit();
        unset($this->XLSHandle);
    }
    
    public function OpenFile($FilePath)
    {
        $this->WrkBksHandle = $this->XLSHandle->Workbooks->Open($FilePath);
    }
    
    public function ReadData($RowNo, $ClmNo)
    {
       $Value = $this->XLSHandle->ActiveSheet->Cells($RowNo, $ClmNo)->Value;
       return $Value;
    }  
    
    public function SaveOpenedFile()
    {
        $this->WrkBksHandle->Save(); 
    }  
    
    /***********************************************************************************
    * Function Name:- WriteToXlsFile() will write data based on row and column numbers
    * @Param:- $CellData- cell data
    * @Param:- $RowNumber- xlsx file row number
    * @Param:- $ColumnNumber- xlsx file column numbers
   ************************************************************************************/
   function WriteToXlsFile($CellData, $RowNumber, $ColumnNumber)
   {
       try{
               $this->XLSHandle->ActiveSheet->Cells($RowNumber,$ColumnNumber)->Value = $CellData;
           }
       catch(Exception $e){
               throw new Exception("Error:- Unable to write data to xlsx sheet");
           }
   }


   /****************************************************************************************
    * Function Name:- CreateXlsFileWithClmName() will initialize xls file with column Names
    * @Param:- $XlsColumnNames- Array of columns data
    * @Param:- $XlsColumnWidth- Array of columns width
   *******************************************************************************************/
   function CreateXlsFileWithClmNameAndWidth($WorkSheetName = "Raman", $XlsColumnNames = null, $XlsColumnWidth = null)
   {
       //Hide MS Excel application window
       $this->XLSHandle->Visible = 0;
       //Create new document
       $this->xlBook = $this->XLSHandle->Workbooks->Add();

       //Create Sheet 1
       $this->xlBook->Worksheets(1)->Name = $WorkSheetName;
       $this->xlBook->Worksheets(1)->Select;

       if($XlsColumnWidth != null)
       {
           //$XlsColumnWidth = array("A1"=>15,"B1"=>20);
           foreach($XlsColumnWidth as $Clm=>$Width)
           {
               //Set Columns Width
               $this->XLSHandle->ActiveSheet->Range($Clm.":".$Clm)->ColumnWidth = $Width;
           }    
       }
       if($XlsColumnNames != null)
       {
           //$XlsColumnNames = array("FirstColumnName"=>1, "SecondColumnName"=>2);
           foreach($XlsColumnNames as $ClmName=>$ClmNumber)
           {
               // Cells(Row,Column)
               $this->XLSHandle->ActiveSheet->Cells(1,$ClmNumber)->Value = $ClmName;
               $this->XLSHandle->ActiveSheet->Cells(1,$ClmNumber)->Font->Bold = True;
               $this->XLSHandle->ActiveSheet->Cells(1,$ClmNumber)->Interior->ColorIndex = "15";
           }
       }
   }
   //56 is for xls 8
    public function SaveCreatedFile($FileName, $FileFormat = 56)
    {
        $this->xlBook->SaveAs($FileName, $FileFormat);
    }
    
    public function MakeFileVisible()
    {
       //Hide MS Excel application window`enter code here`
       $this->XLSHandle->Visible = 1;
    }
}//end of EXCEL class

Solution 7 - Php

I'm using below excel file url: https://github.com/inventorbala/Sample-Excel-files/blob/master/sample-excel-files.xlsx

Output:

Solution 8 - Php

I have used following code to read "xls and xlsx" :

    include 'PHPExcel/IOFactory.php';

    $location='sample-excel-files.xlsx';

    $objPHPExcel = PHPExcel_IOFactory::load($location);
    $sheet = $objPHPExcel->getSheet(0);
    $total_rows = $sheet->getHighestRow();
    $total_columns = $sheet->getHighestColumn();
    $set_excel_query_all=array();
    for($row =2; $row <= $total_rows; $row++) {
        $singlerow = $sheet->rangeToArray('A' . $row . ':' . $total_columns . $row, NULL, TRUE, FALSE);
        $single_row=$singlerow[0];
        $set_excel_query['store_id']=$single_row[0];
        $set_excel_query['employee_uid']=$single_row[1];
        $set_excel_query['opus_id']=$single_row[2];
        $set_excel_query['item_description']=$single_row[3];
        if($single_row[4])
        {
            $set_excel_query['opus_transaction_date']= date('Y-m-d', PHPExcel_Shared_Date::ExcelToPHP($single_row[4]));
        }
        $set_excel_query['opus_transaction_num']=$single_row[5];
        $set_excel_query['opus_invoice_num']=$single_row[6];
        $set_excel_query['customer_name']=$single_row[7];
        $set_excel_query['mobile_num']=$single_row[8];
        $set_excel_query['opus_amount']=$single_row[9];
        $set_excel_query['rq4_amount']=$single_row[10];
        $set_excel_query['difference']=$single_row[11];
        $set_excel_query['ocomment']=$single_row[12];
        $set_excel_query['mark_delete']=$single_row[13];
        if($single_row[14])
        {
            $set_excel_query['upload_date']= date('Y-m-d', PHPExcel_Shared_Date::ExcelToPHP($single_row[14]));
        }
        $set_excel_query_all[]=$set_excel_query;
    }
    
   print_r($set_excel_query_all);

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