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Asked: 2026-06-02T06:53:31+00:00

I have a file import.php in which html data is written under table tags.

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I have a file “import.php” in which html data is written under table tags. Now i want to parse that data and save that data in an excel sheet. Format is undermentioned and first tr contains the heading and then the data

<html>
  <body>
  <table>
  <tr>
  <th>Name</th>
  <th>Email</th>
  <th>Addr</th>
  <th>City</th>
  </tr>

  <tr>
  <td>Jack</td>
  <td>a@b.com</td>
  <td>xyz Road</td>
  <td>LOS ANGELES</td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
  <td>Sam</td>
  <td>sam@b.com</td>
  <td>pr Road</td>
  <td>TUSTIN</td>
  </tr>
    </table>
  </body>
  </html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Maybe you’ve better look at this: http://phpexcel.codeplex.com/

    and this: http://www.easyxls.com/

    Another trick is to save your data as a CSV file: http://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/php/php10p6.html

    UPDATE:

    There is no simpler way for saving data into an Excel file directly but saving as CSV. Try this code:

    <?php 
$data = array( array("firstname" => "Mary", "lastname" => "Johnson", "age" => 25), 
    array("firstname" => "Amanda", "lastname" => "Miller", "age" => 18), 
    array("firstname" => "James", "lastname" => "Brown", "age" => 31), 
    array("firstname" => "Patricia", "lastname" => "Williams", "age" => 7), 
    array("firstname" => "Michael", "lastname" => "Davis", "age" => 43), 
    array("firstname" => "Sarah", "lastname" => "Miller", "age" => 24), 
    array("firstname" => "Patrick", "lastname" => "Miller", "age" => 27) ); 

    # filename for download 
    $filename = "website_data_" . date('Ymd') . ".xls"; 
    header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$filename\""); 
    header("Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel");
    $flag = false; 
    foreach($data as $row) 
    { 
        if(!$flag) 
        { # display field/column names as first row echo 
            implode("\t", array_keys($row)) . "\r\n"; $flag = true; 
        } 
        array_walk($row, 'cleanData');
        print implode("\t", array_values($row)) . "\r\n"; 
    }


    function cleanData(&$str) 
    { 
        $str = preg_replace("/\t/", "\\t", $str); 
        $str = preg_replace("/\r?\n/", "\\n", $str); 
        if(strstr($str, '"')) 
            $str = '"' . str_replace('"', '""', $str) . '"';
    }
?>

    As for the seperation of the values from the html tags, you could read your html code from import.php, remove all unnecessary tags, put a seperator to the end of each or tag and then put your values into a single dimension array:

    <?php 
$htmldata = "";
$htmldata .= "<html>";
$htmldata .= "<body>";
$htmldata .= "<tr>";
$htmldata .= "<th>header1</th>";
$htmldata .= "<th>header2</th>";
$htmldata .= "<th>header3</th>";
$htmldata .= "<th>header4</th>";
$htmldata .= "</tr>";
$htmldata .= "<tr>";
$htmldata .= "<td>data1</td>";
$htmldata .= "<td>data2</td>";
$htmldata .= "<td>data3</td>";
$htmldata .= "<td>data4</td>";
$htmldata .= "</tr>";
$htmldata .= "</body>";
$htmldata .= "</html>";

//Remove the unecessary tags like <html>, </html>, <body>, </body>, <th>, </th>, <td>, </td>
$searchfor = array("<html>", "</html>", "<body>", "</body>", "<tr>", "</tr>", "<th>", "</th>", "<td>", "</td>");
$replacewith = array("", "", "", "", "", "", "", "**SEPERATOR**", "", "**SEPERATOR**"); // Replace </th> & </td> with **SEPERATOR** text
$htmldata = str_replace($searchfor, $replacewith, $htmldata);

$values = explode("**SEPERATOR**", $htmldata); ;
print_r($values);

?>

    The first 4 values of the array $values contain your header values. Hope that it helps…

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