Import Excel data in Symfony database

Question

I\'m working on a project where I need to import Excel data to my Symfony database. But the problem is that I don\'t know how to do that. I tried with ExcelBundle. The proje

Answer 1

As mentioned in a comment you can use PHPExcel. Install the library using composer

composer require phpoffice/phpexcel

A typical reader might look something like

class GameImportReaderExcel
{

    public function read($filename)
    {
        // Tosses exception
        $reader = \PHPExcel_IOFactory::createReaderForFile($filename);

        // Need this otherwise dates and such are returned formatted
        /** @noinspection PhpUndefinedMethodInspection */
        $reader->setReadDataOnly(true);

        // Just grab all the rows
        $wb = $reader->load($filename);
        $ws = $wb->getSheet(0);
        $rows = $ws->toArray();

        foreach($rows as $row) {
            // this is where you do your database stuff
            $this->processRow($row);
        }

Call the reader class from your controller

public function (Request $request)
{
    $file = $request->files->has('file') ? $request->files->get('file') : null;
    if (!$file) {
        $errors[] = 'Missing File';
    }

    $reader = new GameImportReaderExcel();
    $reader->read($file->getRealPath());

That should get you started. And yes you could convert to csv but why bother. Just as easy to read the raw file and save your users an extra step.