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Created August 7, 2012 09:48
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Parse simple XLSX in PHP with SimpleXML and ZipArchive
<?php
/**
* I had to parse an XLSX spreadsheet (which should damn well have been a CSV!)
* but the usual tools were hitting the memory limit pretty quick. I found that
* manually parsing the XML worked pretty well. Note that this, most likely,
* won't work if cells contain anything more than text or a number (so formulas,
* graphs, etc ..., I don't know what'd happen).
*/
$inputFile = '/path/to/spreadsheet.xlsx';
$dir = '/path/to/tmp/dir';
// Unzip
$zip = new ZipArchive();
$zip->open($inputFile);
$zip->extractTo($dir);
// Open up shared strings & the first worksheet
$strings = simplexml_load_file($dir . '/xl/sharedStrings.xml');
$sheet = simplexml_load_file($dir . '/xl/worksheets/sheet1.xml');
// Parse the rows
$xlrows = $sheet->sheetData->row;
foreach ($xlrows as $xlrow) {
$arr = array();
// In each row, grab it's value
foreach ($xlrow->c as $cell) {
$v = (string) $cell->v;
// If it has a "t" (type?) of "s" (string?), use the value to look up string value
if (isset($cell['t']) && $cell['t'] == 's') {
$s = array();
$si = $strings->si[(int) $v];
// Register & alias the default namespace or you'll get empty results in the xpath query
$si->registerXPathNamespace('n', 'http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/spreadsheetml/2006/main');
// Cat together all of the 't' (text?) node values
foreach($si->xpath('.//n:t') as $t) {
$s[] = (string) $t;
}
$v = implode($s);
}
$arr[] = $v;
}
// Assuming the first row are headers, stick them in the headers array
if (count($headers) == 0) {
$headers = $arr;
} else {
// Combine the row with the headers - make sure we have the same column count
$values = array_pad($arr, count($headers), '');
$row = array_combine($headers, $values);
/**
* Here, do whatever you like with the [header => value] assoc array in $row.
* It might be useful just to run this script without any code here, to watch
* memory usage simply iterating over your spreadsheet.
*/
}
}
@unlink($dir);
@unlink($inputFile);
@makantayebi
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nice work! On my version of PHP the $headers = array(); in the beginning is necessary. would be a tiny update to this. I suggest allowing pull requests.

@towony
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towony commented Jan 4, 2018

I want to be very grateful. I wanted a very simple one. You've already made it. I needed a little modification. thanks again

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