Question

I’ve got a pretty substantial XLS file a client provided 830 total tabs/sheets.

I’ve designed a multi table database with PHPMyAdmin (MySQL obviously) to house the information that’s in there, and have populated about 5 of those sheets by hand to ensure the data will fit into the designed database.

Is there a piece of software or some sort of tool that will help me format this XLS document and map it to the right places in the database?

Answer 1

According to this thread you can import a csv file exported from excel with php.

Quoting @noelthefish

as you seem to be using PHP here is a function that is built into PHP

array fgetcsv ( resource $handle [, int $length [, string $delimiter [, string $enclosure [, string $escape ]]]] )

<?php
$row = 1;
$handle = fopen("test.csv", "r");
while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE) {
    $num = count($data);
    echo "<p> $num fields in line $row: </p>\n";
    $row++;
    for ($c=0; $c < $num; $c++) {
        echo $data[$c] . "\n";
    }
}
fclose($handle);
?>

this is the very basic of what you need. You would of course put in
the database update part within the while loop. Take out the ECHO
statements as well unless you are debugging but basically with a
little alteration this small piece of code will do what you need. if
you need more info check out uk.php.net