I want to read data from an Excel file in PHP so that I can process the data and insert it into a DB.
Looking around SO, it looks like PHPExcel is the premier library for this task.
I went to the PHPExcel GitHub page (https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPExcel), but I cannot figure out how to actually use the library. There are a ton of example files and none of the ones I looked at seem to match the simple use case I'm looking for.
Furthermore, I cannot even figure out which files from the GitHub page I even need to download and what the folder structure for the include file(s) needs to be.
As such, given the way the GitHub page linked above is structured now (for v1.8), what files do I need to download and what is a simple code example that allows me to provide a path to an Excel file and read the data from the file?