I have to agree with this, CSV is the way to go. While you have to train your users to save as CSV, you are better off using a more universal standard the microshaft standards. Sorry for the top posting, the Q doesn't like to bottom post. :/ Wolf -----Original Message----- From: Jay Blanchard <jblanchard@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 6:36 PM To: srihari naidu <srihari_asd@xxxxxxxxx>; php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: How to read excel sheet and display it's contents. [snip] I think i am not clear with my question. I know that the files are missing at the correct location. Please suggest me any other free code that i can use instead of the code i tried. [/snip] Convert the spreadsheet to CSV and then you can use fopen, fgets, etc. to read the file. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php