Read excel xlsx file using simplexlsx in php

Question

I am using simplexlsx.class.php to read xlsx file type. It\'s giving problems when the file contain date field in the excel file.

Sample output:

Answer 1

Those are the correct dates, just in Excel's internal format: number of days since Jan 1st 1900 (allowing for 1900 being a leap year). Clearly something in the simplexlsx class is converting the xlsx date value to the Excel internal format.

I've not come across simplexlsx before (which surprises me as I thought I knew all the Excel file reader/writer libraries for PHP)... but somewhere in the code there must be a method to handle that conversion, so I'd imagine that there would also be a method for the reverse (converting Excel timestamp to PHP)

EDIT

The method you want is in the code:

function unixstamp( $excelDateTime ) {
    $d = floor( $excelDateTime ); // seconds since 1900
    $t = $excelDateTime - $d;
    return ($d > 0) ? ( $d - 25569 ) * 86400 + $t * 86400 : $t * 86400;
}

I make no guarantees that it's accurate

EDIT FURTHER

function unixstamp( $excelDateTime ) {
    $d = floor( $excelDateTime ); // seconds since 1900
    $t = $excelDateTime - $d;
    return ($d > 0) ? ( $d - 25569 ) * 86400 + $t * 86400 : $t * 86400;
}


$dateVal = 40941;
$unixDateVal = unixstamp($dateVal);
var_dump($unixDateVal);
echo date('d-M-Y',$unixDateVal);

gives

float 1328140800

which looks remarkably like a unix timestamp value in the correct range for this year, and sure enough:

02-Feb-2012

So looks like it works to me