how to get date from excel using PHPExcel library

Question

I am trying to get Date from excel using PHPExcel. But I am not getting date, I am getting string value which is not seconds from 1970 .

Code I have tried is

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Answer 1

You can get the cell values as string (also the date values) this way:

$sheet = $objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet();
$lastRow = $sheet->getHighestRow();
$lastColumn = $sheet->getHighestColumn();

$rows = $sheet->rangetoArray('A2:'.$lastColumn . $lastRow, NULL, True, True, False);
foreach ($rows as $row => $cols) {
    foreach($cols as $col => $cell) {
        echo trim($cell).'
'; // Gives the value as string
    }
}