PHP Excel reader

php-excel-reader Parse and retrieve information from XLS files Download from Code Google When the excel reader is run on PHP 5.3, below mentioned deprecated warning messages gets shown. i) Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated Remove & from the line below $this->_ole =& new OLERead(); and have $this->_ole = new OLERead(); instead. ii) Function split() is deprecated Function split() is deprecated and we can use explode() instead of that. $parts = split(";",$format); change it to $parts = explode(";",$format);