vladistl / simplexls

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

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 [e-mail] 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

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