I'm looking for a low overhead way to convert a .xlsx file to a .csv file using PHP without consuming excess memory or loading extraneous classes. Anyone?
I'm looking for a low overhead way to convert a .xlsx file to a .csv file using PHP without consuming excess memory or loading extraneous classes. Anyone?
You can use following code in PhpSpreadsheet.
$reader = \PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\IOFactory::createReader('CSV');
$objPHPExcel = $reader->load('csv_file.csv');
$objWriter = \PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\IOFactory::createWriter($objPHPExcel, 'XLSX');
$objWriter->save('excel_file.xlsx');
If you need to lower memory usage you can provide some caching to the processing, see - https://phpspreadsheet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/memory_saving/