How do I determine the end of the file using PHPExcel library in chunk loop?

Question

Using the PHPExcel library, I am attempting to iterate over around 1500 rows, each row has about 25 columns.

I am using this code (taken from PHPExcel runs out of 256, 5

Answer 1

I would normally do this:

$objPHPExcel = $objReader->load($inputFileName);    
$rows = count($objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->toArray());    
for ($start_row = 1; $start_row < $rows; $start_row ++)
// ...

$excel->getActiveSheet()->toArray() will only return each row (with data) in an array.