How to find out how many rows and columns to read from an Excel file with PHPExcel?

Question

With the following code, I am able to read the cells out of an Excel file with PHPExcel.

I currently manually define how many rows and columns to re

Answer 1

From the 1.7.6 and below PHPExcel versions it is possible to get worksheet information without reading whole file:

$objReader     = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createReader("Excel2007"); 
$worksheetData = $objReader->listWorksheetInfo($uploadedfile);
$totalRows     = $worksheetData[0]['totalRows'];
$totalColumns  = $worksheetData[0]['totalColumns'];