Are there any libraries or scripts available for reading data from Excel files in PHP?

To read data from Excel files in PHP, you can use the PHPExcel library which provides a set of classes for reading and writing Excel files. This library allows you to easily manipulate Excel files and extract data from them. 

// Include PHPExcel library
require 'PHPExcel/Classes/PHPExcel.php';

// Load the Excel file
$excelFile = 'example.xlsx';
$excelReader = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createReaderForFile($excelFile);
$excelObj = $excelReader->load($excelFile);

// Get the first sheet
$sheet = $excelObj->getSheet(0);

// Get the highest row and column
$highestRow = $sheet->getHighestDataRow();
$highestColumn = $sheet->getHighestDataColumn();

// Loop through rows and columns to read data
for ($row = 1; $row <= $highestRow; $row++) {
    for ($col = 'A'; $col <= $highestColumn; $col++) {
        $cellValue = $sheet->getCell($col . $row)->getValue();
        echo "Cell " . $col . $row . ": " . $cellValue . "<br>";
    }
}

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Excel PHP libraries scripts data extraction

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