PHPExcel How to get only 1 cell value?

Question

I would think that a getCell($X, $y) or getCellValue($X, $y) would be available for one to easily pick a a certain value. This can be usefully, as

Answer 1

By far the simplest - and it uses normal Excel co-ordinates:

// Assuming $sheet is a PHPExcel_Worksheet

$value = $sheet->getCell( 'A1' )->getValue();

You can separate the co-ordinates out in a function if you like:

function getCell( PHPExcel_Worksheet $sheet, /* string */ $x = 'A', /* int */ $y = 1 ) {

    return $sheet->getCell( $x . $y );

}

// eg:
getCell( $sheet, 'B', 2 )->getValue();