This PHP library expands on the great work done in the PHP Excel Reader project on SourceForge.

It reads the binary format of XLS files directly and can return values and formats from any cell.

Download

http://code.google.com/p/php-excel-reader/downloads/list

Example

Microsoft Excel Screenshot

PHP Output

By simply using this php command:

<?php echo $data->dump(true,true); ?>

The output looks like this (with some CSS):

( http://www.mattkruse.com/php-excel-reader/example.php )

Discussion Group

http://groups.google.com/group/php-excel-reader-discuss

Documentation

http://code.google.com/p/php-excel-reader/wiki/Documentation

Change Log

http://code.google.com/p/php-excel-reader/wiki/ChangeHistory