Question

php to read excel file

Asked by: reachganesh

Hi there
I have got to create a webpage that will read the excel file and update the database accordingly.The php page is going to be on unix so I cannot use COM .The user will be using the xcel sheets on windows clients and the webpage that update the database will be on the unix server.

Now I have got a form in php that updates the database .It displays the values from databse and update the records using an action button  in the form

What I am thinking is ,In the webpage I wanted to give an option as upload file

pathof the file.csv -->upload button

initially the form will be blank

so the form will display the records from the excel file instead of dabase  when I clcik on the upload button and when i click update it will update the database .The excel file should be saved as csv format


is it easier to do????

I thought of one more thing,I just wanted to write a php program to upload the file as csv and update the database. instead of displaying it in the form.It will not have the form and  only the textbox to upload the file

how can I do this

thanks

ganesh

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2004-07-16 at 18:10:02ID21061888
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excel

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php

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read

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file

Topic

PHP for Windows

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Answers

 

by: meet_zorrerPosted on 2004-07-16 at 23:09:45ID: 11573726

well i have found the following links for you ;)

http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/phpexcelreader/Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader.zip
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
INTRODUCTION
Read data from Excel spread sheets without Microsoft!
Provides an API to allow any application to read Excel
documents. Written in PHP. Based on the the Java version by Andy Khan.

LINKS

OpenOffice.org's Documentation
http://sc.openoffice.org/excelfileformat.pdf

OLE2 Storage Documentation
http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/poifs/fileformat.html

Java API for reading, writing and modifying the contents of Excel spreadsheets
http://www.andykhan.com/

CONTACT
Vadim Tkachenko
vt _at_ apachephp _DOT_ com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Regards,
Meet

 

by: digital0iced0Posted on 2009-01-15 at 14:44:29ID: 23388702

Just in case someone else needs to do this.  There's a new project called PHP Excel that works really well, it even supports .xlsx files.  http://www.codeplex.com/PHPExcel  The only problem is their documentation is not that great at the moment.  Anyway, the code below will import the cells from an excel file and display them in the browser.  

$objReader = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createReader('Excel2007');
$objReader->setReadDataOnly(true);
$objPHPExcel = $objReader->load("test.xlsx");
$worksheet=$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet();
?>
<table>
<?php
$lastRow = $worksheet->getHighestRow();
$lastCol = $worksheet->getHighestColumn();
 
for ($row = 1; $row <= $lastRow; $row++){
?>
<tr>
<?php for ($col = 'A'; $col <= $lastCol; $col++){ ?>
<td><?php 
echo $worksheet->getCell($col . $row)->getValue();
 ?></td>
<?php } ?>
</tr>
<?php 
}
 
?>
</table>

                                              
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