Convert csv to xls (excel) in php

In my csv file the fields are separated by commas and I tried the above code directly specifying the file names instead of passing them as the command line arguments But I am getting the error

Warning: fopen(xlsfile:/studentdetails.xls) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Invalid argument in C:\webapplications\wamp\www\csvtoexcel.php on line 291
Error opening xlsfile:/studentdetails.xls

there student details is the file to which the data needs to get entered and I would like to know whether the file needs to be created by us or the program itself creates it?

Here is the code:
Instead of including xls.php I have pasted the whole code directly.

= 4.3.2
* @author Ignatius Teo
* @copyright (C)2004 act28.com
* @version 0.3
* @date 20 Jan 2005
* $Id: excel.php,v 1.3 2005/01/20 09:58:58 Owner Exp $
*/
class xlsStream
{
/* private */
var $position = 0; // stream pointer
var $mode = “rb”; // default stream open mode
var $xlsfilename = null; // stream name
var $fp = null; // internal stream pointer to physical file
var $buffer = null; // internal write buffer
var $endian = “unknown”; // little | unknown | big endian mode
var $bin = array(
“big” => “v”,
“little” => “s”,
“unknown” => “s”,
);

/**
* detect server endian mode
* thanks to Charles Turner for picking this one up
* @access private
* @params void
* @returns void
* @see http://www.phpdig.net/ref/rn45re877.html
*/
function _detect()
{
// A hex number that may represent ‘abyz’
$abyz = 0x6162797A;

// Convert $abyz to a binary string containing 32 bits
// Do the conversion the way that the system architecture wants to
switch (pack (‘L’, $abyz))
{
// Compare the value to the same value converted in a Little-Endian fashion
case pack (‘V’, $abyz):
$this->endian = “little”;
break;

// Compare the value to the same value converted in a Big-Endian fashion
case pack (‘N’, $abyz):
$this->endian = “big”;
break;

default:
$this->endian = “unknown”;
break;
}
}

/**
* called by fopen() to the stream
* @param (string) $path file path
* @param (string) $mode stream open mode
* @param (int) $options stream options (STREAM_USE_PATH |
* STREAM_REPORT_ERRORS)
* @param (string) $opened_path stream opened path
*/
function stream_open($path, $mode, $options, &$opened_path)
{
$url = parse_url($path);
$this->xlsfilename = ‘/’ . $url[‘host’] . $url[‘path’];
$this->position = 0;
$this->mode = $mode;

$this->_detect(); // detect endian mode

//@TODO: test for invalid mode and trigger error if required

// open underlying resource
$this->fp = @fopen($this->xlsfilename, $this->mode);
if (is_resource($this->fp))
{
// empty the buffer
$this->buffer = “”;

if (preg_match(“/^w|x/”, $this->mode))
{
// write an Excel stream header
$str = pack(str_repeat($this->bin[$this->endian], 6), 0x809, 0x8, 0x0, 0x10, 0x0, 0x0);
fwrite($this->fp, $str);
$opened_path = $this->xlsfilename;
$this->position = strlen($str);
}
}
return is_resource($this->fp);
}

/**
* read the underlying stream resource (automatically called by fread/fgets)
* @todo modify this to convert an excel stream to an array
* @param (int) $byte_count number of bytes to read (in 8192 byte blocks)
*/
function stream_read($byte_count)
{
if (is_resource($this->fp) && !feof($this->fp))
{
$data .= fread($this->fp, $byte_count);
$this->position = strlen($data);
}
return $data;
}

/**
* called automatically by an fwrite() to the stream
* @param (string) $data serialized array data string
* representing a tabular worksheet
*/
function stream_write($data)
{
// buffer the data
$this->buffer .= $data;
$bufsize = strlen($data);
return $bufsize;
}

/**
* pseudo write function to manipulate the data
* stream before writing it
* modify this to suit your data array
* @access private
* @param (array) $data associative array representing
* a tabular worksheet
*/
function _xls_stream_write($data)
{
if (is_array($data) && !empty($data))
{
$row = 0;
foreach (array_values($data) as $_data)
{
if (is_array($_data) && !empty($_data))
{
if ($row == 0)
{
// write the column headers
foreach (array_keys($_data) as $col => $val)
{
// next line intentionally commented out
// since we don’t want a warning about the
// extra bytes written
// $size += $this->write($row, $col, $val);
$this->_xlsWriteCell($row, $col, $val);
}
$row++;
}

foreach (array_values($_data) as $col => $val)
{
$size += $this->_xlsWriteCell($row, $col, $val);
}
$row++;
}
}
}
return $size;
}

/**
* Excel worksheet cell insertion
* (single-worksheet supported only)
* @access private
* @param (int) $row worksheet row number (0…65536)
* @param (int) $col worksheet column number (0..255)
* @param (mixed) $val worksheet row number
*/
function _xlsWriteCell($row, $col, $val)
{
if (is_float($val) || is_int($val))
{
// doubles, floats, integers
$str = pack(str_repeat($this->bin[$this->endian], 5), 0x203, 14, $row, $col, 0x0);
$str .= pack(“d”, $val);
}
else
{
// everything else is treated as a string
$l = strlen($val);
$str = pack(str_repeat($this->bin[$this->endian], 6), 0x204, 8 + $l, $row, $col, 0x0, $l);
$str .= $val;
}
fwrite($this->fp, $str);
$this->position += strlen($str);
return strlen($str);
}

/**
* called by an fclose() on the stream
*/
function stream_close()
{
if (preg_match(“/^w|x/”, $this->mode))
{
// flush the buffer
$bufsize = $this->_xls_stream_write(unserialize($this->buffer));

// …and empty it
$this->buffer = null;

// write the xls EOF
$str = pack(str_repeat($this->bin[$this->endian], 2), 0x0A, 0x00);
$this->position += strlen($str);
fwrite($this->fp, $str);
}

// …and close the internal stream
return fclose($this->fp);
}

function stream_eof()
{
$eof = true;
if (is_resource($this->fp))
{
$eof = feof($this->fp);
}
return $eof;
}
}

stream_wrapper_register(“xlsfile”, “xlsStream”)
or die(“Failed to register protocol: xlsfile”);

//THE ACTUAL CODE FOR THE CONVERSION

/*The code shown here is really simple. You include the excel.php class; by including that file you register a stream wrapper for protocol xlsfile – that’s the last thing the excel.php does.

After that, it’s all you. In this working example below, I am running the php program from a command line. Argument 1 is the input file, a tab separated csv file, and argument 2 is the xls file to be written. The code expects the first row to be column headings.

First, we read the first row to set the column headers. Then we reach each line and form an associative array that will be an element of the Big Array ($xlsArray) that contains the data that will become the xls file.

Finally, we write the Big Array, and *poof* we’re done! */

//require_once(“../classes/excel.php”);
$inputFile=”file.txt”;
$xlsFile=”studentdetails.xls”;

//$inputFile=$argv[1];
///$xlsFile=$argv[2];

if( empty($inputFile) || empty($xlsFile) ) {
die(“Usage: “. basename($argv[0]) . ” in.csv out.xls\n” );
}

$fh = fopen( $inputFile, “r” );
if( !is_resource($fh) ) {
die(“Error opening $inputFile\n” );
}

/* Assuming that first line is column headings */
if( ($columns = fgetcsv($fh, 1024, “\t”)) == false ) {
print( “Error, couldn’t get header row\n” );
exit(-2);
}
$numColumns = count($columns);

/* Now read each of the rows, and construct a
big Array that holds the data to be Excel-ified: */
$xlsArray = array();
$xlsArray[] = $columns;
while( ($rows = fgetcsv($fh, 1024, “\t”)) != FALSE ) {
$rowArray = array();
for( $i=0; $i<$numColumns;$i++ ) {
$key = $columns[$i];
$val = $rows[$i];
$rowArray[“$key”] = $val;
}
$xlsArray[] = $rowArray;
unset($rowArray);
}
fclose($fh);

/* Now let the excel class work its magic. excel.php
has registered a stream wrapper for “xlsfile:/”
and that’s what triggers its ‘magic’: */
$xlsFile = “xlsfile:/”.$xlsFile;
$fOut = fopen( $xlsFile, “wb” );
if( !is_resource($fOut) ) {
die( “Error opening $xlsFile\n” );
}
fwrite($fOut, serialize($xlsArray));
fclose($fOut);

exit(0);

?>

you can extend the limits by editing your php.ini placed in /etc.

It’s a anti-spoonfeed typo. Actualy, it should be “xlsfile://”

generated .xls file doesn’t open in MS office…gives unable to read and corrupted error message