SimpleXLS class 0.9.5

Parse and retrieve data from old Excel XLS files. MS Excel 97 workbooks PHP reader. PHP BIFF reader. No addiditional extensions need (internal olereader). XLS only, MS Excel 2003+ php reader here

Sergey Shuchkin sergey.shuchkin@gmail.com 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

Debug

ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL );
ini_set('display_errors', 1 );

$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

0.9.5 (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