PhpSpreadsheet - get row without iterating on each cell - phpexcel

Question

I'm using PhpSpreadsheet to easily read from a xls document and insert into a DB after some calculations. I succeeded using examples from the documentation, but I find it sooo complicated I'm sure I missed something and it can be done much more easily.
$worksheet = $this->getWorksheet("file.xls");
foreach ($worksheet->getRowIterator() as $row) {
$cellIterator = $row->getCellIterator();
$cellIterator->setIterateOnlyExistingCells(FALSE);
foreach ($cellIterator as $key => $cell) {
$cellValue = $cell->getValue();
if($key == 'A')
$field1 = $cellValue;
if($key == 'B') {
$dateTime = \PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Shared\Date::excelToDateTimeObject($cellValue);
$date = $dateTime->format("Y-m-d");
}
if($key == 'C')
$field2 = $cellValue;
if($key == 'D')
$field3 = $cellValue;
if($key == 'E')
$field4 = $cellValue;
}
}
I would have expected something like $row->getCell("A")->getValue() to be available.
So... Have I missed something ?

Answer 1

See the docs on getting the values by column and row directly rather than testing the keys
From the example:
// Get the value from cell B5
$cellValue = $spreadsheet->getActiveSheet()->getCellByColumnAndRow(2, 5)->getValue();
Hope that helps

Answer 2

Here is what I found
$reader = new \PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Reader\Xlsx();
$spreadsheet = $reader->load("test.xlsx");
$sheet = $spreadsheet->getSheet(0);
$nb = 0;
foreach ($sheet->getRowIterator() as $row) {
echo $sheet->getCell("A$nb")->getValue();
echo "<hr>";
$nb++;
}

Answer 3

You have to access somehow each cell.
Example: for the case when you don't know the dimensions of rows and columns ( ... which can have combined letters past single alphabet letters), get iteration for each row and then for each column, and in the end you can have the data parsed into multidimensional array:
$results = [];
$reader = new Xlsx(); // PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Reader\Xlsx
$reader->setReadDataOnly(true);
$spreadsheet = $reader->load(storage_path('app/temp/' . $file));
$sheet = $spreadsheet->getActiveSheet();
foreach ($sheet->getRowIterator() as $index => $row) {
$cellIterator = $row->getCellIterator();
$cellIterator->setIterateOnlyExistingCells(FALSE); // This loops through all cells, even if a cell value is not set.
$row_content = [];
foreach ($cellIterator as $cell) {
array_push($row_content, $cell->getValue());
}
$results[] = $row_content;
}