Retrieving image in PHPExcel

Question

I want to read/retrieve an Image from excel file to PHP using PHPExcel. This code is used to retrieve a value from a particular cell.

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Answer 1

class ExcelImport
{
    /**
     * @var
     */
    protected $excel;
    /**
     * @var
     */
    protected $work_sheet;
    /**
     * @var array
     */
    protected $excel_data = [];
    /**
     * ExcelImport constructor.
     * @param Request $request
     * @throws \PHPExcel_Exception
     * @throws \PHPExcel_Reader_Exception
     */
    public function __construct(Request $request)
    {
        //Load file from request
        $this->excel = PHPExcel_IOFactory::load($request->file('file'));
        //Get active sheet
        $this->work_sheet = $this->excel->getActiveSheet();
    }
    /**
     * @return array
     */
    public function import()
    {
        //Iterate through drawing collection
        foreach ($this->work_sheet->getDrawingCollection() as $drawing) {
            //check if it is instance of drawing
            if ($drawing instanceof PHPExcel_Worksheet_Drawing) {
                //creating image name with extension
                $file_name = str_replace(' ', '_', $drawing->getName()).'.'.$drawing->getExtension();
                //Get image contents from path and store them in Laravel storage
                Storage::put('public/'.$file_name, file_get_contents($drawing->getPath()));
                //create images array initially
                $this->excel_data[] = [
                    'image' => $file_name
                ];
            }
        }
        //Map other data present in work sheet
        return $this->rowData();
    }
    /**
     * @return array
     */
    private function rowData()
    {
        $i = 0;
        //Iterate through row by row
        foreach ($this->work_sheet->getRowIterator(2) as $row) {
            //iterate through cell by cell of row
            foreach ($row->getCellIterator() as $cell) {
                //In case of image data that would be null continue
                //We have already populated them in array
                if(is_null($cell->getValue())){continue;}
                //Map other excel data into the array
                $this->excel_data[$i]['name'] = $cell->getValue();
            }
            $i++;
        }
        //Return final data array
        return $this->excel_data;
    }
}

source (my blog): https://meramustaqbil.com/2019/02/23/how-to-extract-images-from-excel-file-using-maat-websites-laravel-excel/

Answer 2

Googling phpexcel read image yielded this page as the second result. It tells you how to do this.

To quote the relevant info directly:

$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->getDrawingCollection() will return an ArrayObject of all the image objects in the active worksheet.

These objects will be either PHPExcel_Worksheet_Drawing or PHPExcel_Worksheet_MemoryDrawing objects: you can identify which using is_a(). You can then use the methods appropriate to that class (as described in the API) either to read the image data from file (for PHPExcel_Worksheet_Drawing objects) or directly from the PHPExcel_Worksheet_MemoryDrawing object itself. The getName() and getDescription() methods can be used to retrieve the relevant values from the image object.

Note that it's also possible to have image objects associated with print headers:

$objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->getHeaderFooter()->getImages() can be used to retrieve images from the header/footer. This is an array of PHPExcel_Worksheet_HeaderFooterDrawing objects. All the PHPExcel_Worksheet_Drawing methods can be used to extract the image file from these objects.

Answer 3

Check this example. I found it useful ..

$objPHPExcel = PHPExcel_IOFactory::load($_FILES['archivo']['tmp_name']);

$i = 0;
foreach ($objPHPExcel->getActiveSheet()->getDrawingCollection() as $drawing) {
    if ($drawing instanceof PHPExcel_Worksheet_MemoryDrawing) {
        ob_start();
        call_user_func(
            $drawing->getRenderingFunction(),
            $drawing->getImageResource()
        );

        $imageContents = ob_get_contents();
        ob_end_clean();
        $extension = 'png';
    } else {
        $zipReader = fopen($drawing->getPath(),'r');
        $imageContents = '';

        while (!feof($zipReader)) {
            $imageContents .= fread($zipReader,1024);
        }
        fclose($zipReader);
        $extension = $drawing->getExtension();
    }
    $myFileName = '00_Image_'.++$i.'.'.$extension;
    file_put_contents($myFileName,$imageContents);
}

Source: http://phpexcel.codeplex.com/workitem/18189