note 59912 modified in function.popen by danbrown

From: Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:36:37 +0000
Subject: note 59912 modified in function.popen by danbrown
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<?php // The above import function can be easily extended using // /usr/local/bin/xls2csv (part of catdoc ) and popen // to read excell files directly. // In our particular application the first line was the file heading. function importxls($file,$head=true,$throwfirst=true,$delim=",",$len=1000) { $return = false; $handle = popen("/usr/local/bin/xls2csv $file", "r"); // or die if not there. if ($throwfirst) { $throw = fgetcsv($handle, $len, $delim); } if ($head) { $header = fgetcsv($handle, $len, $delim); } while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, $len, $delim)) !== FALSE) { if ($head AND isset($header)) { foreach ($header as $key=>$heading) { $row[$heading]=(isset($data[$key])) ? $data[$key] : ''; print "<li>". $heading ."=>" . $row[$heading]."</li>"; } $return[]=$row; } else { $return[]=$data; } } fclose($handle); return $return; } ?> --was-- // The above import function can be easily extended using // /usr/local/bin/xls2csv (part of catdoc ) and popen // to read excell files directly. // In our particular application the first line was the file heading. function importxls($file,$head=true,$throwfirst=true,$delim=",",$len=1000) { $return = false; $handle = popen("/usr/local/bin/xls2csv $file", "r"); // or die if not there. if ($throwfirst) { $throw = fgetcsv($handle, $len, $delim); } if ($head) { $header = fgetcsv($handle, $len, $delim); } while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, $len, $delim)) !== FALSE) { if ($head AND isset($header)) { foreach ($header as $key=>$heading) { $row[$heading]=(isset($data[$key])) ? $data[$key] : ''; print "<li>". $heading ."=>" . $row[$heading]."</li>"; } $return[]=$row; } else { $return[]=$data; } } fclose($handle); return $return; } http://php.net/manual/en/function.popen.php

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