PHPExcel wrongly reading xls file as HTML

Question

I am using PHPExcel to read a large "xls" file. Firstly, I am determining the file type for reader using PHPExcel_IOFactory::identify($inputFileName). However, PHPExcel is wrongly identifying it as HTML file and using HTML Reader which fails with DOM errors.

After some searching, I found that PHPExcel does not work well with stream wrappers. Refer here.

I have no idea what stream wrappers are, and the file I am trying to read is downloaded using wget.

Please let me know how to remove the stream wrappers, so that PHPExcel can identify the file correctly.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Download the file to a local drive on your server, even if just as a temporary file, then try to identify/read it.... but PHPExcel uses fseek() for most of its Readers, which isn't supported by many of the stream wrappers.