Read XLS in PHP using PhpSpreadsheet

Question

I have a requirements to read XLS files (not xlsx) using PhpSpreadsheet and I having trouble. I tried this (as the documentation say but...)

require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Spreadsheet;

$spreadsheet = \PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\IOFactory::load("lista.xls");
$worksheet = $spreadsheet->getActiveSheet();

echo '<table>' . PHP_EOL;
foreach ($worksheet->getRowIterator() as $row) {
    echo '<tr>' . PHP_EOL;
    $cellIterator = $row->getCellIterator();
    $cellIterator->setIterateOnlyExistingCells(FALSE); // This loops through all cells,
                                                       //    even if a cell value is not set.
                                                       // By default, only cells that have a value
                                                       //    set will be iterated.
    foreach ($cellIterator as $cell) {
        echo '<td>' .
             $cell->getValue() .
             '</td>' . PHP_EOL;
    }
    echo '</tr>' . PHP_EOL;
}
echo '</table>' . PHP_EOL;

echo "<br>fin";

but didn't work (it worked with a xlsx file, but no with a xls file!)

Then I tried to open file differently:

$reader = new \PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Reader\Xls();
$sheet = $reader->load("lista.xls");

but also doesn't work...

I really need to solve this... please help! PS: I've tried BasicExcel & PHPExcel but also didn't seem to work

Answer 1

<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Spreadsheet;
use PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Writer\Xlsx;

$spreadsheet = new Spreadsheet();

$inputFileType = 'Xlsx';
$inputFileName = './mysheet.xlsx';

/**  Create a new Reader of the type defined in $inputFileType  **/
$reader = \PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\IOFactory::createReader($inputFileType);
/**  Advise the Reader that we only want to load cell data  **/
$reader->setReadDataOnly(true);

$worksheetData = $reader->listWorksheetInfo($inputFileName);

foreach ($worksheetData as $worksheet) {

$sheetName = $worksheet['worksheetName'];

echo "<h4>$sheetName</h4>";
/**  Load $inputFileName to a Spreadsheet Object  **/
$reader->setLoadSheetsOnly($sheetName);
$spreadsheet = $reader->load($inputFileName);

$worksheet = $spreadsheet->getActiveSheet();
print_r($worksheet->toArray());

}