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<?php

// The above import function can be easily extended using 

// /usr/local/bin/xls2csv (part of catdoc ) and popen 

// to read excell files directly. 

// In our particular application the first line was the file heading.

function importxls($file,$head=true,$throwfirst=true,$delim=",",$len=1000) {

   $return = false;

   $handle = popen("/usr/local/bin/xls2csv $file", "r");

// or die if not there.

   if ($throwfirst) {

       $throw = fgetcsv($handle, $len, $delim);

   }

   if ($head) {

       $header = fgetcsv($handle, $len, $delim);

   }

   while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, $len, $delim)) !== FALSE) {

       if ($head AND isset($header)) {

           foreach ($header as $key=>$heading) {

               $row[$heading]=(isset($data[$key])) ? $data[$key] : '';

               print "<li>". $heading ."=>" . $row[$heading]."</li>";

           }

           $return[]=$row;

       } else {

           $return[]=$data;

       }

   }

   fclose($handle);

   return $return;

}

?>
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