Question

I am reading a bunch of excel files and inserting their data inside database. The queries are all working correctly. Only problem is if an author is present in first excel file its entry is also showing in other excel file also. This is my code.

$array = array(
1=>"abc",
2=>"def",
3=>"age");

foreach ($array as $key=>$val) {
    $file = $array[$key].'.xls';
    $data->read($file);
    $ID = $key;
    for ($i = 1; $i <= $data->sheets[0]['numRows']; $i++) {
        $a = addslashes($data->sheets[0]['cells'][$i][1]);
        if($a == "Ali")
        {
             echo $a."=>".$ID." ".$i."<br>";
        }
    }
}

The desired output is

abc.xls
Ali=>1 282
def.xls
age.xls

and the output coming is

abc.xls
Ali=>1 282
def.xls
Ali=>2 282
age.xls
Ali=>3 282

Can anybody tell me where is mistake in this code. Any help will be appreciate..

NOTE The number of rows present in excel sheet are 100.

Answer 1

I haven’t included this lines inside foreach loop , because of that $data is always taking 1st excel file. Not taking further files. This lines are included before foreach loop.

The lines are

$data = new Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader();
$data->setOutputEncoding('utf-8');

Now code becomes

foreach ($array as $key=>$val) {
    $data = new Spreadsheet_Excel_Reader();
    $data->setOutputEncoding('utf-8');
    $file = $array[$key].'.xls';
    $data->read($file);
    $ID = $key;
    for ($i = 1; $i <= $data->sheets[0]['numRows']; $i++) {
       $a = addslashes($data->sheets[0]['cells'][$i][1]);
       if($a == "Ali")
       {
         echo $a."=>".$ID." ".$i."<br>";
       }
    }
}