SimpleXLS class 0.9.6

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

Sergey Shuchkin sergey.shuchkin@gmail.com 2016-2020

Basic Usage

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