Date not being stored in database from .xlsx sheet in PHP - php

Question

I have a page to save an excel sheet records to the database. The records are being stored same way as they are provided in excel sheet other than "date of birth" column.
The "Date of Birth" column saves only for the second record being uploaded from excel sheet. I had been searching a lot on this but not found the exact reason for it.
Here is my complete code ,
<?php include 'blocks/headerInc.php' ;
include 'Classes/PHPExcel/IOFactory.php';
?>
<?php
$scsmsg = "" ;
$errmsg = "" ;
if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
extract($_POST);
//$moduleId = mysql_real_escape_string(htmlspecialchars(trim($module_id)));die;
if(empty($_FILES['bulk_file']['name']))
{
$errmsg .= 'Please Choose File.<br>';
}
if(!empty($_FILES['bulk_file']['name']))
{
$extensions = array('.xlsx');
$valid_extensions = '.xlsx';
$extension = strrchr($_FILES['bulk_file']['name'], '.');
if (!in_array($extension, $extensions))
{
$errmsg .="Wrong files format , alowed Extension only".$valid_extensions.""."<br>";
}
}
if($errmsg == "")
{
$created = date("Y-m-d h:i:s");
$register_date = date("Y-m-d");
$created_by = $_SESSION['session_admin_id'] ;
$bulk_file = $_FILES['bulk_file']['name'];
if(!empty($bulk_file))
{
$tmp_name=$_FILES['bulk_file']['tmp_name'];
$bulk_file=$_FILES['bulk_file']['name'];
$file_name = $bulk_file;
//$file=$file_name.".csv";
$inputFileName = "uploads/user/$file_name";
$file_sucess=move_uploaded_file($tmp_name,$inputFileName);
//$inputFileName = 'format.xlsx';
try {
$objPHPExcel = PHPExcel_IOFactory::load($inputFileName);
} catch(Exception $e)
{
die('Error loading file "'.pathinfo($inputFileName,PATHINFO_BASENAME).'": '.$e->getMessage());
}
$allDataInSheet = $objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->toArray(null,true,true,true);
$arrayCount = count($allDataInSheet); // Here get total count of row in that Excel sheet
for($i=2;$i<=$arrayCount;$i++)
{
$salutation = trim($allDataInSheet[$i]["A"]);
$sbiempid = trim($allDataInSheet[$i]["B"]);
$branch = trim($allDataInSheet[$i]["C"]);
$middlename = trim($allDataInSheet[$i]["D"]);
$firstname = trim($allDataInSheet[$i]["E"]);
$lastname = trim($allDataInSheet[$i]["F"]);
$dateofbirth = trim($allDataInSheet[$i]["G"]);
$dateInput = explode('-',$dateofbirth);
$dob = $dateInput[2].'-'.$dateInput[1].'-'.$dateInput[0];
// $dob ="19".date("Y-m-d", strtotime($dateofbirth));
//var_dump($dob);
//print_r($dob);
$mobileno = trim($allDataInSheet[$i]["H"]);
$email = trim($allDataInSheet[$i]["I"]);
$city = trim($allDataInSheet[$i]["J"]);
$state = trim($allDataInSheet[$i]["K"]);
$designation = trim($allDataInSheet[$i]["L"]);
$corporate_user_sql=mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query("select * from tbl_corporate where id='$created_by'"));
$pre_define_day=$corporate_user_sql['pre_defined_day'];
$dataQuestion = array("type"=>"3","salutation"=>$salutation, "employee_id"=>$sbiempid, "branch"=>$branch, "middle_name"=>$middlename, "first_name"=>$firstname, "last_name"=>$lastname, "dob"=> $dob, "mobile"=>$mobileno, "email"=>$email, "city"=>$city,"state"=>$state,"designation"=>$designation,"created_on"=>$created, "created_by"=>$created_by,"status"=>"0","register_date"=>$register_date,"request_updated_day"=>$pre_define_day,"registration_type"=>"1");
$db->query_insert("tbl_user", $dataQuestion);
$question_id = mysql_insert_id();
$raw_password=uniqid().$question_id;
$md5_pass=md5(uniqid().$question_id);
$dataOption1 = array("registration_id"=>$sbiempid."_".$question_id,"password"=>$md5_pass,"raw_password"=>$raw_password);
$db->query_update("tbl_user", $dataOption1,"id=$question_id");
}
}
$scsmsg = "<b>Record inserted Successfully</b>";
}
}
?>
<div class="container pagecontainer">
<!-- Static navbar -->
<div class="row row-offcanvas row-offcanvas-right">
<!--/.col-xs-12.col-sm-9-->
<div class="col-sm-3 col-md-3 sidebar" id="sidebar">
<div id="left_panel" class="clearfix left">
<?php include 'blocks/leftnavInc.php' ; ?>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-xs-12 col-sm-9 page-right">
<div class="panel panel-primary">
<div class="panel-heading">Upload User</div>
<div class="panel-body">
<div class="column col-sm-offset-0">
<?php
if($scsmsg!="")
{
echo "<div class='success'>".ucwords($scsmsg)."</div>";
}
if($errmsg!="")
{
echo "<div class='error'>".ucwords($errmsg)."</div>";
}
echo "<div id='error'></div>";
?>
<form class="form-horizontal" method="post" action="" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-md-12">
<div class="col-md-3">
<label for="username" class="control-label">Select FIle:</label>
</div>
<div class="col-md-9">
<input type="file" name="bulk_file" class="form-control" required="" >
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-md-12">
<div class="col-md-3">
<label for="username" class="control-label">
Download Format</label>
</div>
<div class="col-md-9 text-right">
<button type="submit" name="submit" value="submit" class="btn btn-success"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-floppy-disk"></i> Save</button>
<button type="reset" onClick="javascript:window.location.href='quizList.php';" class="btn btn-danger"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-ban-circle"></i> Cancel</button>
<button type="reset" onclick="javascript:history.go(-1)" class="btn btn-danger"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-ban-circle"></i> Go Back</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<!--/.sidebar-offcanvas-->
</div>
</div>
<?php include 'blocks/footerInc.php'; ?>
May I know where am I doing wrong in this as rest of the data fields are being posted semantically. This stores date of birth only for the second record in the excel sheet and for rest rows date of birth are being saved as 0000-00-00.
Any suggestion and help will be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

I'd suggest that you don't request formatted values when you build the array from the spreadsheet content, use
$allDataInSheet = $objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->toArray(null,true,false,true);
instead of
$allDataInSheet = $objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->toArray(null,true,true,true);
Then manually convert the raw timestamp date values from cells to the format you need for the database
$dateofbirth = PHPExcel_Shared_Date::ExcelToPHPObject($allDataInSheet[$i]["G"])
->format('Y-m-d');