import-from-excel

I want to import data from excel file using PHP and then if possible, save it to a MySQL database. Importing from Excel files (XLS) is way harder than improting from CSV files. Usually I save my XLS to CSV with Excel then work on this CSV with PHP... Look at PHP function fgetcsv at: http://ca.php.net/manual/en/function.fgetcsv.php <?php $row = 1; if (($handle = fopen("test.csv", "r")) !== FALSE) { while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE) { $num = count($data); echo "<p> $num fields in line $row: <br /></p>\n"; $row++; for ($c=0; $c < $num; $c++) { echo $data[$c] . "<br />\n"; }

I'm trying to read a 17MB excel file (2003) with PHPExcel1.7.3c, but it crushes already while loading the file, after exceeding the 120 seconds limit I have. Is there another library that can do it more efficiently? I have no need in styling, I only need it to support UTF8. Thanks for your help Filesize isn't a good measure when using PHPExcel, it's more important to get some idea of the number of cells (rowsxcolumns) in each worksheet. If you have no need for styling, are you calling: $objReader->setReadDataOnly(true); before loading the file? If you don't need to access all worksheets, or

I know how to read my xlsx spreadsheet and loop through the first sheet. It has 5 sheets and I am having trouble getting to any other than the first. Here is the code I am using which was straight from the documentation. You can see I tried to utilize setActiveSheet, but that threw the error Call to undefined method PHPExcel::setActiveSheet() . Code : $objReader = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createReader('Excel2007'); $objReader->setReadDataOnly(true); $objPHPExcel = $objReader->load("cmt_school_data.xlsx"); //$objPHPExcel->setActiveSheet(1); $objWorksheet = $objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet(); echo '

I'm creating a utility to import data from Excel to Oracle database, I have a fixed template for the excel file, Now, when I'm trying to import the data by Jet provider and ADO.Net - Ole connection tools, I found the following problem: there're some columns haven't been imported because there are mixed data types in their columns [string and number], I looked for this problem on the internet I found the reason is guessing data types from Excel The load code: connection = new OleDbConnection(@"Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0; Data Source={0};Extended Properties=Excel 8.0;"); string columns =

I've seen lots of references to converting the "date" portion of the Excel serial date format, but everyone seems to skip the "time" portion of it. Here is what I need to do: I have an Excel file I'm importing. PHP in use. I am encountering the Excel Date Serial format (dddddd.tttttt) and need to convert this to an entire Unix timestamp. I've tried a few different things, but am getting hung up on how to do this in a fluid motion. Ahmed Eissa Please use this formula to change from Excel date to Unix date, then you can use "gmdate" to get the real date in PHP: UNIX_DATE = (EXCEL_DATE - 25569) *

I have an excel file with four text columns: one of them is called ShortDescription which has the longest value. I created a table in SQL Server 2008 database, with four columns and the ShortDescription column type is set to NvarChar(Max). but when using the SSIS import and export dialog, I keep getting the mentioned error in the title, even when I set the OnTruncation option to Ignore. I tried to clear the column data, and it succeeded (so I made sure that the problem is in the ShortDescription column). I tried to copy the whole data to another excel work book, and still no luck. any ideas ??

I want to import data from an Excel file - assume Excel 2003 / .xls - to Sql Server 2008. Have tried adding a linked server to the JET OLE DB Access driver, and of course it fails on the 64-bit machine. But when I try to drop the linked server while experimenting, there's another error saying that the linked server already/still exists! I have also tried changing the Excel driver to 32-bit (regedit tool) but am not sure if it's doing anything, same error is coming up! Some more details: Say Table1 in Excel file has 5 columns. I want to map to Database.dbo.Table1 with 5 columns again, but with