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[nycphp-talk] de-moronizing an Excel sheet

Rolan Yang rolan at omnistep.com
Mon Mar 5 14:27:20 EST 2007


If this is a one shot deal, you might want to try saving as a csv and 
LOAD DATA INFILE in mysql

~Rolan

David Mintz wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> Is anyone familiar with this Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader class? 
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=99160
>
> I need to import Excel to MySQL. This class seems promising -- I have 
> started playing and can get the data into PHP, no problem. Except that 
> the single quotes, double quotes, em dashes, et cetera are wreaking 
> havoc. Does anyone know of any solution? I see there are 
> setOutputEncoding() and setUTFEncoder() methods but I am not sure 
> whether they are what I need and what values to pass them.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- 
> David Mintz
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