I'm building Excel template to get data about products from our users. The problem is that there are certain fields number of which can vary.
For example, product can have 1 contributor or 12 contributors. Each contributor have the following fields:
- key name
- name before key
- role
- biography
I don't think is good idea to include 12 * 4 columns to Excel template, because on the next day user can send product which has 13 contributors.
I decided that I will include data about all contributors in one cell, for example in cell "Contributor Key Name" I will have name of all product contributors, in cell "Contributor Role" I will have roles of all contributors etc.
I wanted to divide contributors data by new line symbol. I created Excel table with the following data:
The problem is that when I read value of these cells ("Contributor Key Name" for example) in PHP I don't see new line symbol. Instead I receive string with strange characters:
I tried to do
explode('
',$cellValue);
but it doesn't work.
I use PHPExcel library for working with table.
My question is - how new line symbol is encoded in Excel? What would you recommend to use as delimiter in Excel cells?
UPD:
So, in order to divide strings by new line character you should use " " as delimiter.
I think, that strange symbols appeared in my string because initially I created table in Numbers app and then export to xslx format. (Numbers has some problem with new line character during export)
