How to retrieve date from table cell using PhpSpreadsheet?

Question

I have xlsx tables and I use PhpSpreadsheet to parse them. Some cells format is date. The problem is that PhpSpreadsheet returns the values from date-formatted

Answer 1

When we are iterating with $row->getCellIterator() or we might have other kinds of value, it might be useful to use getFormattedValue instead

while using getValue()

• Full name: Jane Doe => "Jane Doe"
• DOB: 11/18/2000 => 36848.0

while using getFormattedValue()

• Full name: Jane Doe => "Jane Doe"
• DOB: 11/18/2000 => "11/18/2000"