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<?php require 'vendor/autoload.php'; use \PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\IOFactory; $inputFile = 'workbook.xlsx'; $reader = IOFactory::createReaderForFile($inputFile); // The names alone. This does not load a single cell. $names = $reader->listWorksheetNames($inputFile); echo "Sheets in {$inputFile}:\n"; foreach ($names as $i => $name) { echo " [{$i}] {$name}\n"; } // One entry per sheet, with its dimensions - still without loading the cells. echo "\nSize of each sheet:\n"; foreach ($reader->listWorksheetInfo($inputFile) as $info) { printf( " %-10s %5d rows x %2d cols (last cell %s%d)\n", $info['worksheetName'], $info['totalRows'], $info['totalColumns'], $info['lastColumnLetter'], $info['totalRows'] ); } // Load ONLY the sheet you want. The reader skips everything else as it parses. $reader->setLoadSheetsOnly('Notes'); $spreadsheet = $reader->load($inputFile); printf( "\nLoaded only 'Notes': %d sheet in memory (%s), %.2f MB peak.\n", $spreadsheet->getSheetCount(), implode(', ', $spreadsheet->getSheetNames()), memory_get_peak_usage(true) / 1048576 );
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Key methods
IOFactory::load()
PhpSpreadsheet
getActiveSheet()
PhpSpreadsheet
fromArray()
PhpSpreadsheet
getCalculatedValue()
PhpSpreadsheet
save('php://output')
PhpSpreadsheet
spreadsheets_values->get()
Google Sheets
spreadsheets_values->update()
Google Sheets
spreadsheets->create()
Google Sheets
json_encode()
PHP
header()
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