/simplexls

Parse and retrieve data from old format Excel XLS files. MS Excel 97 workbooks PHP reader.

Primary LanguagePHPMIT LicenseMIT

SimpleXLS class 0.9.10

Parse and retrieve data from old Excel .XLS files. MS Excel 97-2003 workbooks PHP reader. PHP BIFF reader. No additional extensions needed (internal olereader).
Modern .XLSX php reader here.

Hey, bro, please ★ the package for my motivation :) and donate for more motivation!

Sergey Shuchkin sergey.shuchkin@gmail.com 2016-2021

Basic Usage

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

)

Installation

composer require shuchkin/simplexls

or download class here

Debug

ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL );
ini_set('display_errors', 1 );

//header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');

$xls = SimpleXLSX::parse('books.xlsx', false, true );
print_r( $xls->rows() );
print_r( $xls->sheets );

Classic OOP style

$xls = new SimpleXLS('books.xls');
if ($xls->success()) {
	print_r( $xls->rows() );
} else {
	echo 'xls error: '.$xls->error();
}

History

0.9.10 (2021-05-19) SimpleXLSX to SimpleXLS in example
0.9.9 (2021-03-04) Added $xls->toHTML()
0.9.8 (2021-03-04) Fixed skipping first row & col, fixed datetime format in unicode  
0.9.7 (2021-02-26) Added ::parseFile(), ::parseData()
0.9.6 (2020-12-01) Fixed README
0.9.5 (2020-01-16) Fixed negative number values and datetime values
0.9.4 (2019-03-14) Added git Tag for prevent composer warning 
0.9.3 (2019-02-19) Fixed datetime detection
0.9.2 (2018-11-15) GitHub realese, composer