I have a .xls spreadsheet with one worksheet containing 21 rows and 9 columns. I've used CTRL-END to see if there's any hidden data and it only moves the active cell from A1 to I21, so 21x9 is all there is in this 18.5Kb .xls file. This takes approximately 35 minutes for my fast server to execute the following 3 statements :
Is there anything else I should be doing?
// using PHPExcel-1.7.8 with PHP 5.4.16 on Centos 5 on quad code xeon dedicated server with 16GB RAM
$objPHPExcel = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createReaderForFile($path_to_excel);
$objPHPExcel->setReadDataOnly(true);
$objPHPExcel->load($path_to_excel);