Question

Imagine an Excel file with 2 columns like below:

Name    Surname
John    Some surname
Matt    Another surname
Steve   Again something

Is there a way to get a value of the cell by column name and row number? Something like this:

$worksheet->getCellByColumnNameAndRowValue('Name', 1)->getValue(); // gives John

Right now I’m using an array that maps column names to column numbers and getCellByColumnAndRow function but I wonder if there’s a simpler solution.

Answer 1

No there isn’t, because ‘Name’ is just a string cell value (the value in cell ‘A1’) to PHPExcel, it isn’t a column name (that would be column ‘A’)

What you could do would be to specify a Named Range called ‘Name’ (or ‘Surname’, or whatever)… then you could use the namedRangeToArray() method to return the values of all cells in the named range as an array.