Upload Excel File Itself to the Database - php

Question

I was thinking since i can import the data from excel to my database, is it possible to upload the excel file itself and be able to display it in your website?

Answer 1

For client webpage side, use html form <input type="file"> to upload excel file from browser to PHP file.
Example upload-submit.html:
<form action="upload.php">
<input type="file" name="excel-upload" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
In your PHP upload script you will need to include the PHPExcel library (https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPExcel) to read and parse the uploaded Excel file. You can read Mark Baker's very good example on how to read from Excel and insert into a database: how to use phpexcel to read data and insert into database?
Example upload.php :
// Include PHPExcel_IOFactory
include 'PHPExcel/IOFactory.php';
// Move the uploaded file from temporary server directory into an 'uploads' directory
$fileName = basename($_FILES["excel-upload"]["name"]);
$uploadedExcelFullPath = __DIR__.'/uploads/'.$fileName;
move_uploaded_file($_FILES['excel-upload']['tmp_name'],$uploadedExcelFullPath);
// Read your Excel workbook
try {
$inputFileType = PHPExcel_IOFactory::identify($uploadedExcelFullPath);
$objReader = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createReader($inputFileType);
$objPHPExcel = $objReader->load($uploadedExcelFullPath);
} catch(Exception $e) {
die('Error loading file "'.pathinfo($uploadedExcelFullPath,PATHINFO_BASENAME).'": '.$e->getMessage());
}
// Get worksheet dimensions
$sheet = $objPHPExcel->getSheet(0);
$highestRow = $sheet->getHighestRow();
$highestColumn = $sheet->getHighestColumn();
// Loop through each row of the worksheet in turn
for ($row = 1; $row <= $highestRow; $row++){
// Read a row of data into an array
$rowData = $sheet->rangeToArray('A' . $row . ':' . $highestColumn . $row,
NULL,
TRUE,
FALSE);
// Insert row data array into your database here
// You can also format data into HTML table row format and echo out here
var_dump($rowData);
}