PHPEXCEL get formatted date as is visible in excel file [duplicate]

Answer 1

I have found out the solution:

Method _formatAsDate in the file PHPExcel/Style/NumberFormat.php

if the date is like 16/11/2014, when passed to strtotime will result in false as the date is supposed to be in format m/d/Y by strtotime. So if you change the format to m/d/Y if it's d/m/Y then the solution will always be correct.

Earlier:

1. 16/11/2014==1970-01-01 (Row: 1)
2. 16/11/2014==1970-01-01 (Row: 2)
3. 23/12/2014==1970-01-01 (Row: 3).

Now:

1. 11/16/2014==2014-11-16 (Row: 1)
2. 11/16/2014==2014-11-16 (Row: 2)
3. 12/23/2014==2014-12-23 (Row: 3)

Code is still the same and simple to import the file:

protected function importExcel($filePath) {
    $excelData = array();
    if ($filePath) {
        $objPHPExcel = PHPExcel_IOFactory::load($filePath);
        foreach ($objPHPExcel->getWorksheetIterator() as $worksheet) {
            $worksheetTitle = $worksheet->getTitle();
            $highestRow = $worksheet->getHighestRow(); // e.g. 10
            $highestColumn = $worksheet->getHighestColumn(); // e.g 'F'
            $highestColumnIndex = PHPExcel_Cell::columnIndexFromString($highestColumn);
            $nrColumns = ord($highestColumn) - 64;
            $data = array();
            for ($row = 1; $row <= $highestRow; ++$row) {
                $values = array();
                for ($col = 0; $col < $highestColumnIndex; ++$col) {
                    $cell = $worksheet->getCellByColumnAndRow($col, $row);
                    $val = $cell->getValue();
                    if (isset($val) && $val)
                        $data[$row][$col] = $val;
                }
            }
            $excelData[$worksheetTitle] = $data;
        }
        return $excelData;
    }
    return FALSE;
}