Parssing a spreadsheet

Hi,
Is it possible to parss a "excel" spreadsheet using PHP?
Currently, I am saving the excel file as a "tab delimited text file", and then uploading the text file. Then using php rebuilding the table structure. Will it be possible to directly parss the excel file itself?

Secondly, while uploading, I am not using FTP, but a "browser" based PHP uploader. What extension should I add in order to allow uploading of excel file?

Thankyou for any help in this matter.
Bye
jeet

 

This binary can index xls files: http://www.45.free.net/~vitus/software/catdoc/

As far as uploading goes, you should be able to upload the files the same as you would a text file

 

Search pear.php.net for 'excel'. There's a few packages there that may help...

 

Thanks, that looks promising, but also sounds very tough to use. I downloaded the binary, will try to install, but I am not sure if I can do that.
Anything else that might help?
Thanks
jeet

 

what about this tool: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpexcelreader/

 

Hi,
I found these 3 packages:
http://pear.php.net/search.php?q=excel&in=packages
Which of these would be suited for reading from the spreadsheet file?
Thanks
jeet

 

COOL! Will use this and let you know how it went.
Thanks