given your excel sheet column names are exactly as database column names following is suffice,
add following above controller class,
use Maatwebsite\Excel\Facades\Excel;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Input;
and function code,
public function postUploadCsv()
{
$rules = array(
'file' => 'required',
'num_records' => 'required',
);
$validator = Validator::make(Input::all(), $rules);
// process the form
if ($validator->fails())
{
return Redirect::to('customer-upload')->withErrors($validator);
}
else
{
try {
Excel::load(Input::file('file'), function ($reader) {
foreach ($reader->toArray() as $row) {
User::firstOrCreate($row);
}
});
\Session::flash('success', 'Users uploaded successfully.');
return redirect(route('users.index'));
} catch (\Exception $e) {
\Session::flash('error', $e->getMessage());
return redirect(route('users.index'));
}
}
}
UPDATE
Suppose you have more than one sheet in a workbook, you will have additional foreach to iterate over sheets as below,
Excel::load(Input::file('file'), function ($reader) {
$reader->each(function($sheet) {
foreach ($sheet->toArray() as $row) {
User::firstOrCreate($row);
}
});
});
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In case you are using Laravel 5.3 and given that your excel sheet columns are not exact
Make use of the following code to suite your needs
/**
* Import file into database Code
*
* @var array
*/
public function importExcel(Request $request)
{
if($request->hasFile('import_file')){
$path = $request->file('import_file')->getRealPath();
$data = Excel::load($path, function($reader) {})->get();
if(!empty($data) && $data->count()){
foreach ($data->toArray() as $key => $value) {
if(!empty($value)){
foreach ($value as $v) {
$insert[] = ['title' => $v['title'], 'description' => $v['description']];
}
}
}
if(!empty($insert)){
Item::insert($insert);
return back()->with('success','Insert Record successfully.');
}
}
}
return back()->with('error','Please Check your file, Something is wrong there.');
}
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Note that by default
- Once your data is extacted from you excel sheet, all the column names are converted to lower case, and all spaces between the names are replaced with underscore.
