PHPExcel toArray skip first header row

Question

I'm uploading an excel file to website and process it for database use.

I'm using toArray() function to get all rows in a php array.

But I want to skip the first row ( header title row). The rest of rows will be stored in array.

How can I skip the first row.

Note : I can't use rangeToArray() function since there is not fixed range to get rows into array. It is dynamic. All i want is get all rows except first.

Answer 1

Eko answers half the problem, you can use rangeToArray(); but you don't need to use a loop at all:

$highestRow = $sheet->getHighestRow(); 
$highestColumn = $sheet->getHighestColumn();

$sheetData = $sheet->rangeToArray(
    'A2:' . $highestColumn . $highestRow,
    NULL,TRUE,FALSE
);

Alternatively, use toArray() and then just unset the first element from the returned array

Answer 2

You can achieve that using array_shift this:

$toArray = $worksheet->toArray() 
array_shift($toArray);