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PHP Excel Form Generator:: Example: - Firsntame - Lastname - Mail

The document discusses generating a PHP form from an Excel spreadsheet containing contact details. It describes reading the Excel file into PHP and looping through the records to put them into a multidimensional array. The challenge is that the column headings in the Excel file are not standardized and can vary between files in spelling and number. The goal is to have the PHP application detect the column headings and map them to database fields dynamically when adding the records to the database.

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PHP Excel Form Generator:: Example: - Firsntame - Lastname - Mail

The document discusses generating a PHP form from an Excel spreadsheet containing contact details. It describes reading the Excel file into PHP and looping through the records to put them into a multidimensional array. The challenge is that the column headings in the Excel file are not standardized and can vary between files in spelling and number. The goal is to have the PHP application detect the column headings and map them to database fields dynamically when adding the records to the database.

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PHP Excel form generator:

What I would like to achieve: Imagine you can create an Excel spreadsheet where you are going to create multiple columns. For al of those columns you insert data. For this example I will use contact details. Example: | Firsntame | Lastname | Mail | | John | Cooper | [email protected] | | Bart | Simone | [email protected] | Now I have to read this Excel le into PHP. I can loop the records and put them in an multidimensional array. The Tricky Part: What is the best way to built up a database when you know that the Excel le is never a template used for uploading other contacts? Firstname, Lastname and other table heading can be spelled in an other way there can be 15 columns sometimes and sometimes 5. The application that I would like to create should detect the table headings. But based on those heading I would like to add these values into a database eld. ( I would like to couple it on a eld. ) Example:

Questions: - What is the best way to add those records to the database ( with personal picked column names ) - Is this a good practice ?

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