Load excel file into PHP_Excel from variable

Question

I currently have this

file_put_contents($tmpfile, $attachments[0][\'body\']);
$objPHPExcel = PHPExcel_IOFactory::load($tmpfile);

The file I

Answer 1

PHPExcel provides no direct method for loading from a string rather than from a file. As an alternative to actually creating a physical filesystem file for $tmpfile though, you might be able to use php://memory or php://temp