PHP import excel (xls) files to array or csv

How have I never seen this before today?

I’ve only been working with it for a few hours but it’s amazing. It can read and write from many different formats.

Output your spreadsheet object to different file formats
Excel 2007 (spreadsheetML)
BIFF8 (Excel 97 and higher)
PHPExcel Serialized Spreadsheet
CSV (Comma Separated Values)
HTML
PDF
Read different file formats into your spreadsheet object
Excel 2007 (spreadsheetML)
BIFF5 (Excel 5.0 / Excel 95), BIFF8 (Excel 97 and higher)
PHPExcel Serialized Spreadsheet
CSV (Comma Separated Values)

I am very excited about this. Another honorable mention is which might be worth a look if you just want something a bit more simple. - Full Post