Comments on: Importing Excel files into MySQL with PHP

By: supraja

supraja — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:42:06 +0000

setOutputEncoding('CP1251'); $data->read('example.xls'); $conn = mysql_connect("10.40.20.201","root","tanla@123"); mysql_select_db("voiceobd",$conn); for ($x = 2; $xsheets[0]["cells"]); $x++) { $msisdn=$data->sheets[0]["cells"][$x][1]; $achievement=$data->sheets[0]["cells"][$x][2]; $date=$data->sheets[0]["cells"][$x][3]; $sql="INSERT INTO achievementlist (msisdn,achieved,date)VALUES ('$msisdn',$achievement,'$date')"; echo $sql."\n"; mysql_query($sql); } ?> after executing it is showing: The filename example.xls is not readable

By: asma

asma — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:23:28 +0000

hello
the program works but when I home him I find these problems
"Notice: Uninitialized string offset: 2199023255040 in /home/suptec/public_html/charlemagne/Excel/oleread.php on line 27" and
Notice: Undefined index: in /home/suptec/public_html/charlemagne/Excel/oleread.php on line 136
and
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 71 bytes) in /home/suptec/public_html/charlemagne/Excel/oleread.php on line 131
plz help me

By: Blingue

Blingue — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:33:33 +0000

Really Awesome script, work great for me. Thanks a lot!!!

By: Daisy

Daisy — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 03:41:01 +0000

Hi,

I am having a problem with when excel date. The value of date I got from excel shows only like this (Mar/Tue/2010201020102010). Anyone can help?

By: Sem

Sem — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:30:52 +0000

Hello,

I am having a hard time resolving a problem regarding utf-8 characterset, Turkish to be specific. I am trying to import a username that has some of these characters, İŞĞÇÜÖ.

if the column has İ in it, it interprets the rest of these unique characters just fine, meaning that it prints them out ok. but if there is no İ but other characters like ŞĞÇÜÖ, it does not interprets them as it should.

Any idea why?

By: Martín Indico

Martín Indico — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:40:50 +0000

Thanks for your post, tried it on my website and it worked very well with .xls spreadsheet excel 2003, I have not had any problems.

By: harisoft

harisoft — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:55:18 +0000

Not working. Getting message "
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in C:\wamp\www\Spreadsheet\Excel\Excel\Spreadsheet\Excel\Reader\oleread.php on line 172"

By: Balanca

Balanca — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:39:25 +0000

Can't get it to work!

It displays this message:

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in oleread.inc on line 172

Can anybody help me, please.

By: Arun

Arun — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:14:15 +0000

Very nce. thanks

By: swaraaj

swaraaj — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:16:55 +0000

Hi Nnamdi

$this->_ole = & new OLERead(); (line 261a)

just remove the '&' sign there and your script will be working this is really awesome script for exporting data from excel file to sql its really worth working with it.

thanks a lot
for any query feel free to post here.

By: Nnamdi

Nnamdi — Thu, 12 May 2011 08:48:12 +0000

Good Morning Colleagues,

I get the exception message below, each time I run the codes above.

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\wamp\www\LGHS\admin\Excel\reader.php on line 261

By: Major Hayden

Major Hayden — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:42:50 +0000

gk -

Glad I could help!

By: gk

gk — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:03:36 +0000

This is Awesome script and worked for me really very well....

Thanks a lot

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?