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

$spreadsheet = new Spreadsheet();
$reader = \PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\IOFactory::createReader('xls');
$reader->setReadDataOnly(true);
$spreadsheet = $reader->load('file location here');
$worksheet = $spreadsheet->getActiveSheet();
foreach ($worksheet->getRowIterator() AS $row) {
     $cellIterator = $row->getCellIterator();
     $cellIterator->setIterateOnlyExistingCells(FALSE); // This loops through all cells,
     $cells = [];
           foreach ($cellIterator as $cell) {
                 $cells[] = $cell->getValue();
           }
     $rows[] = $cells;
}

//blade html

                @foreach($rows[0] as $heading)
                     
                @endforeach
            
             @foreach($rows as $key=>$val)
                   @if(!($key == 0))
                        
                            @foreach($val as $value)
                                 
                            @endforeach
                        
                    @endif
             @endforeach
      

      

            
{{$heading}}
      
      
{{$value}}

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