Here is function to read from the XSL sheet which is saved as a text file.
function ReadExcelSheet($filename){
$test=file($filename);
$ar1=str_replace("~[^\t]*\t","\t",$test);
$ar2=str_replace("~","",$ar1);
$ar=str_replace("?","",$ar2);
$temp=array();
for ($i=0; $i<count($ar); $i++) {
if((substr($ar[$i],0,1)!= "\t")){
if($ar[$i]!=="\r\n"){
array_push($temp,$ar[$i]);
}
}
}
$name=split("\t",$temp[0]);
$ExcelList=array();
for($i=1;$i<count($temp);$i++){
$split_result=split("\t",$temp[$i]);
array_push($ExcelList,$split_result);
}
$result=insert_into_array($ExcelList,0,$name);
return($result);
}
