How to parse an Excel file using PHP

Question

Can anybody point me to a reference or just explain about how to parse an Excel file in general?

Answer 1

check this project http://code.google.com/p/php-excel/

Answer 2

This is also a good excel php lib http://www.codeplex.com/PHPExcel

Answer 3

you can use dbTube.org. This is an graphical excel importer. Advantage: documented source code included. In this case you can use this as template for your project.