the link to "reducing the memory usage" was actually helpful; i followed the tips and it got rid of the "out of mem" error all right; but i stumbled on a diff. problem now; what do i do in the cell handler function so that i can read the cell contents using the get_cell() and value() functions?

currently it looks like the cell handler blocks cell read alltogether. I am trying to read the cell contents and dump them into a database - the code was working fine for small spreadsheets; but now after the cell handler function, the table in the db comes out empty which obviously means the cell values are unable to be read.
any tips?

In reply to Re^2: Reading huge spreadsheets using Spreadsheet::ParseExcel... by biswanath_c
in thread Reading huge spreadsheets using Spreadsheet::ParseExcel... by biswanath_c

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