PHPExcel - How can i read the Excel sheet row by row

Question

How can i read Excel worksheet row by row using PHPExcel? I have a sheet contains more than 100000 rows, but i want to read only 500 rows.

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Answer 1

require_once "/PATH TO PHP EXCEL FOLDER/PHPExcel.php"; 
$inputFileName = $_FILES['FILENAME'];
$objTpl = PHPExcel_IOFactory::load('./PATH TO UPLOAD FOLDER/' . $inputFileName);
$sheetData = $objTpl->getActiveSheet()->toArray(null, true, true, true);
array_shift($sheetData);
$i=0;
$test_array = array();
foreach($sheetData as $key=>$val){
    if($i < 500)
        $test_array[$i] = $val;
    $i++;   
}