Phpexcel Reader -- Help Required

PHPExcel reader -- help required

how do we get the sheet name ( bcoz in
one excel there are 7 sheets )?

To get the current active sheet:

$sheetName = $objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->getTitle();

time changed into some integer value,
that shoud be same as in excel sheet

Look at PHPExcel_Shared_Date::ExcelToPHP($excelDate) or PHPExcel_Shared_Date::ExcelToPHPObject($excelDate) to convert the date/time values to a PHP timestamp or DateTime object

Have a look at the $objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->toArray() method rather than looping through all the rwos and columns yourself. If you want to use toArray with the formatted argument though, don't use $objReader->setReadDataOnly(true); otherwise PHPExcel can't distinguish between a number and a date/time. The latest SVN code has added a rangeToArray() method to the worksheet object, which allows you to read a row (or block of cells) at a time, e.g. $objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->rangeToArray('A1:A4')

The rest of your questions are basically PHP array manipulation

EDIT

PS. Instead of just telling us that the manual is really really very bad... tell us how we can improve it.

EDIT 2

Using the latest SVN code to take advantage of the rangeToArray() method:

$objWorksheet = $objPHPExcel->setActiveSheetIndex(0);
$highestRow = $objWorksheet->getHighestRow();
$highestColumn = $objWorksheet->getHighestColumn();

$headingsArray = $objWorksheet->rangeToArray('A1:'.$highestColumn.'1',null, true, true, true);
$headingsArray = $headingsArray[1];

$r = -1;
$namedDataArray = array();
for ($row = 2; $row <= $highestRow; ++$row) {
    $dataRow = $objWorksheet->rangeToArray('A'.$row.':'.$highestColumn.$row,null, true, true, true);
    if ((isset($dataRow[$row]['A'])) && ($dataRow[$row]['A'] > '')) {
        ++$r;
        foreach($headingsArray as $columnKey => $columnHeading) {
            $namedDataArray[$r][$columnHeading] = $dataRow[$row][$columnKey];
        }
    }
}

echo '<pre>';
var_dump($namedDataArray);
echo '</pre><hr />';

unable to write data using phpexcel

Forgot to add the line

$objWriter->save($filepath);

Now the code is working fine.

PHPExcel how to use data from reader

Please read the documentation chapter 4.5 (included in the PHPExcel download package)

Get a cell type using PHPExcel

Using

$rowData = $sheet->rangeToArray(
    'A' . $i . ':' . $highestColumn . $i,
    NULL,
    True,
    False
);

will give you raw values back from the range rather than formatted values

Alternatively, for an individual cell, you can use

$sheet->getCell('A8')->getDataType();

to get the actual datatype stored in the cell. The list of datatypes is defined in Classes/PHPExcel/Cell/DataType.php

const TYPE_STRING2  = 'str';
const TYPE_STRING   = 's';
const TYPE_FORMULA  = 'f';
const TYPE_NUMERIC  = 'n';
const TYPE_BOOL     = 'b';
const TYPE_NULL     = 'null';
const TYPE_INLINE   = 'inlineStr'; // Rich text
const TYPE_ERROR    = 'e';

PHPExcel file cannot open file because the file format or file extension is not valid

I got it working now! Thanks to this phpexcel to download

I changed the code to this:

// Save Excel 2007 file
#echo date('H:i:s') . " Write to Excel2007 format\n";
$objWriter = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'Excel2007');
ob_end_clean();
// We'll be outputting an excel file
header('Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="payroll.xlsx"');
$objWriter->save('php://output');

I think this line:

ob_end_clean();

solved my problem.

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