SimpleXLSX class 0.8.21 (Official)

Parse and retrieve data from Excel XLSx files. MS Excel 2007 workbooks PHP reader. No addiditional extensions need (internal unzip + standart SimpleXML parser).

See also:
SimpleXLS old format MS Excel 97 php reader.
SimpleXLSXGen xlsx php writer.

Sergey Shuchkin [email protected]

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Basic Usage

if ( $xlsx = SimpleXLSX::parse('book.xlsx') ) {
	print_r( $xlsx->rows() );
} else {
	echo SimpleXLSX::parseError();
}

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => ISBN
            [1] => title
            [2] => author
            [3] => publisher
            [4] => ctry
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [0] => 618260307
            [1] => The Hobbit
            [2] => J. R. R. Tolkien
            [3] => Houghton Mifflin
            [4] => USA
        )

)

// SimpleXLSX::parse( $filename, $is_data = false, $debug = false ): SimpleXLSX (or false)
// SimpleXLSX::parseFile( $filename, $debug = false ): SimpleXLSX (or false)
// SimpleXLSX::parseData( $data, $debug = false ): SimpleXLSX (or false)

Installation

The recommended way to install this library is through Composer. New to Composer?

This will install the latest supported version:

$ composer require shuchkin/simplexlsx

or download class here

Examples

XLSX to html table

echo SimpleXLSX::parse('book.xlsx')->toHTML();

or

if ( $xlsx = SimpleXLSX::parse('book.xlsx') ) {
	echo '<table border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border-collapse: collapse">';
	foreach( $xlsx->rows() as $r ) {
		echo '<tr><td>'.implode('</td><td>', $r ).'</td></tr>';
	}
	echo '</table>';
} else {
	echo SimpleXLSX::parseError();
}

XLSX read cells, out commas and bold headers

echo '<pre>';
if ( $xlsx = SimpleXLSX::parse( 'xlsx/books.xlsx' ) ) {
	foreach ( $xlsx->rows() as $r => $row ) {
		foreach ( $row as $c => $cell ) {
			echo ($c > 0) ? ', ' : '';
			echo ( $r === 0 ) ? '<b>'.$cell.'</b>' : $cell;
		}
		echo '<br/>';
	}
} else {
	echo SimpleXLSX::parseError();
}
echo '</pre>';

XLSX get sheet names and sheet indexes

if ( $xlsx = SimpleXLSX::parse( 'xlsx/books.xlsx' ) ) {
	print_r( $xlsx->sheetNames() );
}
// Sheet numeration started 0

Array
(
    [0] => Sheet1
    [1] => Sheet2
    [2] => Sheet3
)

Gets extend cell info by ->rowsEx()

print_r( SimpleXLSX::parse('book.xlsx')->rowsEx() );

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [type] => s
                    [name] => A1
                    [value] => ISBN
                    [href] => 
                    [f] => 
                    [format] => 
                    [r] => 1
                )

            [1] => Array
                (
                    [type] => 
                    [name] => B1
                    [value] => 2016-04-12 13:41:00
                    [href] => 
                    [f] => 
                    [format] => m/d/yy h:mm
                    [r] => 2
                )

Select Sheet

$xlsx = SimpleXLSX::parse('book.xlsx');
print_r( $xlsx->rows(1) ); // Sheet numeration started 0, we select second worksheet

Get sheet by index

$xlsx = SimpleXLSX::parse('book.xlsx');	
echo 'Sheet Name 2 = '.$xlsx->sheetName(1);

XLSX::parse remote data

if ( $xlsx = SimpleXLSX::parse('http://www.example.com/example.xlsx' ) ) {
	$dim = $xlsx->dimension(1); // don't trust dimension extracted from xml
	$num_cols = $dim[0];
	$num_rows = $dim[1];
	echo $xlsx->sheetName(1).':'.$num_cols.'x'.$num_rows;
} else {
	echo SimpleXLSX::parseError();
}

XLSX::parse memory data

// For instance $data is a data from database or cache    
if ( $xlsx = SimpleXLSX::parseData( $data ) ) {
	print_r( $xlsx->rows() );
} else {
	echo SimpleXLSX::parseError();
}

Get Cell (slow)

echo $xlsx->getCell(0, 'B2'); // The Hobbit

DateTime helpers

// default SimpleXLSX datetime format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS (MySQL)
echo $xlsx->getCell(0,'C2'); // 2016-04-12 13:41:00

// custom datetime format
$xlsx->setDateTimeFormat('d.m.Y H:i');
echo $xlsx->getCell(0,'C2'); // 12.04.2016 13:41

// unixstamp
$xlsx->setDateTimeFormat('U');
$ts = $xlsx->getCell(0,'C2'); // 1460468460
echo gmdate('Y-m-d', $ts); // 2016-04-12
echo gmdate('H:i:s', $ts); // 13:41:00

// raw excel value
$xlsx->setDateTimeFormat( NULL ); // returns as excel datetime
$xd = $xlsx->getCell(0,'C2'); // 42472.570138889
echo gmdate('m/d/Y', $xlsx->unixstamp( $xd )); // 04/12/2016
echo gmdate('H:i:s', $xlsx->unixstamp( $xd )); // 13:41:00 

Rows with header values as keys

if ( $xlsx = SimpleXLSX::parse('books.xlsx')) {
	// Produce array keys from the array values of 1st array element
	$header_values = $rows = [];
	foreach ( $xlsx->rows() as $k => $r ) {
		if ( $k === 0 ) {
			$header_values = $r;
			continue;
		}
		$rows[] = array_combine( $header_values, $r );
	}
	print_r( $rows );
}

Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [ISBN] => 618260307
            [title] => The Hobbit
            [author] => J. R. R. Tolkien
            [publisher] => Houghton Mifflin
            [ctry] => USA
        )
    [1] => Array
        (
            [ISBN] => 908606664
            [title] => Slinky Malinki
            [author] => Lynley Dodd
            [publisher] => Mallinson Rendel
            [ctry] => NZ
        )
)

Debug

ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL );
ini_set('display_errors', 1 );

if ( $xlsx = SimpleXLSX::parseFile('books.xlsx', true ) ) {
	echo $xlsx->toHTML();
} else {
	echo SimpleXLSX::parseError();
}

Classic OOP style

$xlsx = new SimpleXLSX('books.xlsx'); // try...catch
if ( $xlsx->success() ) {
	print_r( $xlsx->rows() );
} else {
	echo 'xlsx error: '.$xlsx->error();
}

More examples here

Error Codes

SimpleXLSX::ParseErrno(), $xlsx->errno()

History

v0.8.21 (2021-01-11) libxml_disable_entity_loader and PHP 8, thx iKlsR
v0.8.19 (2020-07-28) fixed empty shared strings xml
v0.8.18 (2020-07-21) fixed hyperlinks
v0.8.17 (2020-06-15) fixed version number, added relative pathes a/../b support in relations
v0.8.16 (2020-06-14) fixed abs pathes in relations
v0.8.15 (2020-04-28) fixed LibreOffice xml specificity, thx stephengmatthews
v0.8.14 (2020-04-03) fixed Office for Mac relations
v0.8.13 (2020-02-19) removed skipEmptyRows property (xml optimization always), added static parseFile & parseData
v0.8.12 (2020-01-22) remove empty rows (opencalc)
v0.8.11 (2020-01-20) changed formats source priority
v0.8.10 (2019-11-07) skipEmptyRows improved
v0.8.9 (2019-08-15) fixed release version
v0.8.8 (2019-06-19) removed list( $x, $y ), added bool $xlsx->skipEmptyRows, $xlsx->parseFile( $filename ), $xlsx->parseData( $data ), release 0.8.8
v0.8.7 (2019-04-18) empty rows fixed, release 0.8.7
v0.8.6 (2019-04-16) 1900/1904 bug fixed
v0.8.5 (2019-03-07) SimpleXLSX::ParseErrno(), $xlsx->errno() returns error code
v0.8.4 (2019-02-14) detect datetime values, mb_string.func_overload=2 support .!. Bitrix
v0.8.3 (2018-11-14) getCell - fixed empty cells and rows, safe now, but very slow
v0.8.2 (2018-11-09) fix empty cells and rows in rows() and rowsEx(), added setDateTimeFormat( $see_php_date_func )
v0.8.1 rename simplexlsx.php to SimpleXLSX.php, rename parse_error to parseError fix _columnIndex, add ->toHTML(), GNU to MIT license
v0.7.13 (2018-06-18) get sheet indexes bug fix
v0.7.12 (2018-06-17) $worksheet_id to $worksheet_index, sheet numeration started 0
v0.7.11 (2018-04-25) rowsEx(), added row index "r" to cell info
v0.7.10 (2018-04-21) fixed getCell, returns NULL if not exits
v0.7.9 (2018-03-17) fixed sheetNames() (namespaced or not namespaced attr)
v0.7.8 (2018-01-15) remove namespace prefixes (hardcoded)
v0.7.7 (2017-10-02) XML External Entity (XXE) Prevention (]>)
v0.7.6 (2017-09-26) if worksheet_id === 0 (default) then detect first sheet (for LibreOffice capabilities)
v0.7.5 (2017-09-10) ->getCell() - fixed
v0.7.4 (2017-08-22) ::parse_error() - to get last error in "static style"
v0.7.3 (2017-08-14) ->_parse fixed relations reader, added ->getCell( sheet_id, address, format ) for direct cell reading
v0.7.2 (2017-05-13) ::parse( $filename ) helper method
v0.7.1 (2017-03-29) License added
v0.6.11 (2016-07-27) fixed timestamp()
v0.6.10 (2016-06-10) fixed search entries (UPPERCASE)
v0.6.9 (2015-04-12) $xlsx->datetime_format to force dates out
v0.6.8 (2013-10-13) fixed dimension() where 1 row only, fixed rowsEx() empty cells indexes (Daniel Stastka)
v0.6.7 (2013-08-10) fixed unzip (mac), added $debug param to _constructor to display errors
v0.6.6 (2013-06-03) +entryExists()
v0.6.5 (2013-03-18) fixed sheetName()
v0.6.4 (2013-03-13) rowsEx(), _parse(): fixed date column type & format detection
v0.6.3 (2013-03-13) rowsEx(): fixed formulas, added date type 'd', added format 'format'
dimension(): fixed empty sheet dimension
+ sheetNames() - returns array( sheet_id => sheet_name, sheet_id2 => sheet_name2 ...)
v0.6.2 (2012-10-04) fixed empty cells, rowsEx() returns type and formulas now
v0.6.1 (2012-09-14) removed "raise exception" and fixed _unzip
v0.6 (2012-09-13) success(), error(), __constructor( $filename, $is_data = false )
v0.5.1 (2012-09-13) sheetName() fixed
v0.5 (2012-09-12) sheetName()
v0.4 sheets(), sheetsCount(), unixstamp( $excelDateTime )
v0.3 - fixed empty cells (Gonzo patch)