Comments on: Reading/Parsing Excel Spreadsheet using PHP

By: Techie Talks

Techie Talks — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:31:19 +0000

Cool Coding, thank you for helping me out with this problem…

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:44:35 +0000

Thanks for sharing this.Right now, I have problems importing an excel file with keywords. I will try to execute this code.

By: rochmadi

rochmadi — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:57:07 +0000

I have a problem with the link cell, its data is not retrieved and displayed.

Please help.

By: kalpan

kalpan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:03:52 +0000

Thanks for sharing.

firstly I can’t switch to csv. My problem is in my excel file i have data in different languages (German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Russian etc…) I am not able to read it all at once.

I tried using different encoding mechanism but didnt work.

Anyone????

By: Vickykoko

Vickykoko — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:10:31 +0000

Hi,
i have the same error. like this
“While I am trying to upload a xls file after downloading and editing it, I am getting an error “The filename is not readable”. But if I copy the same content in a new xls and upload it,it’s getting uploaded successfully.”
i use many method,but i can’t solution this question,i also use ” ‘tmp_name’ as the second array parameter”,but can’t solution.

please help !!

By: shahil

shahil — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:52:59 +0000

hello people,

please use “tmp_name” as the second array parameter.

for example :-
$data->read($_FILES['excelfile']['tmp_name']);

so it will get the location of where the file is temporarily stored on server.

thanks.

By: Fernando

Fernando — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:55:36 +0000

Thanks for the article, is very usefuly. I have the “is not readable” error and i fix it in this way:

i have uploaded file in webform and when call to the Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader read method send this argument $_FILES["myFile"]["tmp_name"] and doesn’t work, i move the file into own directory in this way :

$path = “data/” .$_FILE["file"]["name"];
$data = new Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader();
$data->setOutputEncoding(‘CP1251′);
$data->read($path);
}

and works fine. I hope thats was we helpfully for you

Regards

By: Daniel Malikov

Daniel Malikov — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:34:54 +0000

Thank you very much for this article.

| I have removed the PEAR dependency: this is a bad practice

Why is it bad practice?

By: Nishit.M.V

Nishit.M.V — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:52:02 +0000

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 33030145 bytes) in D:\xampp\htdocs\testexcel\Excel\oleread.inc on line 172

Why do i get this when i run the example script

By: somdip

somdip — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:38:59 +0000

Still facing the problem. Has anybody got the solution??