Comments on: Importing Excel files into MySQL with PHP

By: Agustu

Agustu — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:31:32 +0000

thanks for the sharing.
but i'm still confusing with your explanation above about:

To work around a bug in PHPExcelReader, copy oleread.inc from the Excel directory into a new path:
Spreadsheet/Excel/Reader/OLERead.php
The PHPExcelReader code will expect OLERead.php to be in that specific location. Once that is complete, you’re ready to use the PHPExcelReader class.
Can you explanation that?

By: Nick Roper

Nick Roper — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:48:59 +0000

Will this work on any server - does it need to be on Windows?

By: major

major — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:28:40 +0000

@AR - Yes, that could be a problem. The phpexcelreader class doesn't allow for reading in chunks.

@OmahaVike - Try PHPExcel: http://www.codeplex.com/PHPExcel - It reads Excel 2007 documents.

By: OmahaVike

OmahaVike — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:25:14 +0000

Warning: reader does not work with Excel 2007. Author's email addy in the code is no longer valid, and it appears that the sourceforge project has been abandonded.

By: AR

AR — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:27:01 +0000

Am I correct in saying line 4 reads the whole spreadsheet into memory?
Won't that have issues with huge files, like 10 or 20 sheets each with 64k lines in them?