Comments on: Reading/Parsing Excel Spreadsheet using PHP

By: Programatically Import Downloadable Product from Excel Spreadsheet « jMP Maniac

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:04:30 +0000

[...] used the following Excel Parser, to read the data from the [...]

By: Andris

Andris — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 08:55:15 +0000

Can I read the file. xls spreadsheet was given a password ??
Please Help me..
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By: Alex D

Alex D — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 01:18:56 +0000

for the memory problems,try this.
ini_set(‘memory_limit’, ‘-1′);

By: shyam

shyam — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:21:20 +0000

i am also having the same issue: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 94371840 bytes exhausted.

someone please suggest me if we need to install some special package or something.

Please help or email me at => shyamji.gupta@netsmartz.net

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 12:53:32 +0000

could you tell me any way to convert xls files into the csv format…
i want to read an xls file and have heard that reading a csv file is simpler….

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 12:50:44 +0000

is there a way to convert xls files to csv via php?
i’d like to read an excel file and i’ve heard that reading csv files via php is far more simpler

By: Aman Nagra

Aman Nagra — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:49:25 +0000

Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in D:\xampp\htdocs\countrylife\excelsheet_reader\reader.php on line 124

getting this error when i downloaded reader.php, am using php5

By: John Congdon

John Congdon — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:40:00 +0000

I hope this helps someone. I created a patch for Excel/reader.php that fixed the date fields in my situation. Learn more here:

http://www.johncongdon.com/php-excelreader-php-date-format-error/

Please make a backup of your version before attempting to use this patch, I don’t want to be responsible for bad things happening…

By: Mujahid

Mujahid — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 09:01:20 +0000

I have a few columns which have optional values and hence can be empty, how can i check that while inserting, it is giving the error
“Notice: Undefined offset: 2..” 2 would be the column number where that particular cell is empty. plz its a little urgent

By: Mohammed

Mohammed — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:58:05 +0000

I want to read an excel file from a web directory to a localhost please help me with how to specify the path. I already tried this …. $data = new Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader(“www.domain.com/excel/$address”.”.xls”);