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searbe / parse_xlsx.php
Created August 7, 2012 09:48
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).
*/