How to read data in Excel in Symfony2 liuggio Excel - excel

Question

Hi I am new to Symfony2 and I need to upload Excel file to MYSQL database?
Can anyone send me a example of how to do it?
Thanks you
Raki

Answer 1

Start by adding: "CodePlex/PHPExcel": "1.7.7", to your composer.json file and updating.
Add a class to sit between the PHPExcel stuff and your code. Something like:
namespace Cerad\ArbiterBundle\Format;
class Excel
{
protected function createReaderForFile($fileName,$readDataOnly = true)
{
// Most common case
$reader = new \PHPExcel_Reader_Excel5();
$reader->setReadDataOnly($readDataOnly);
if ($reader->canRead($fileName)) return $reader;
// Make sure have zip archive
if (class_exists('ZipArchive'))
{
$reader = new \PHPExcel_Reader_Excel2007();
$reader->setReadDataOnly($readDataOnly);
if ($reader->canRead($fileName)) return $reader;
}
// Note that csv does not actually check for a csv file
$reader = new \PHPExcel_Reader_CSV();
if ($reader->canRead($fileName)) return $reader;
throw new Exception("No Reader found for $fileName");
}
public function load($fileName, $readDataOnly = true)
{
$reader = $this->createReaderForFile($fileName,$readDataOnly);
return $reader->load($fileName);
}
}
Now in your code you would have something like:
$excel = new Excel();
$reader = $excel->load('SomeFileName.xls');
$ws = $reader->getSheet(0);
$rows = $ws->toArray();
And process away.

Answer 2

the example of Cerad is an option but it doesn't use that bundle and neither work with mysql,
that bundle is a simple dependency that expose services,
If you have to store data from excel to mysql,
you need first do upload file somewhere, then
read the file with the service,
$excelObj = $this->get('xls.load_xls5')->load($filename);
and then you have to read the documentation of PHPExcel
Hope it helps a little