Cell coordinate can not be zero-length string

[dr-abadis]

Downloaded final version from github but the problem still exists.
I just want to read an xslx file and get this error :

Exception information:

Message: Cell coordinate can not be zero-length string
Stack trace:
#0 C:\xampp\htdocs\wimax.shabdiznet.com\library\PHPExcel\Reader\Excel2007.php(935): PHPExcel_Cell::coordinateFromString('')
#1 C:\xampp\htdocs\wimax.shabdiznet.com\application\models\Functions.php(30): PHPExcel_Reader_Excel2007->load('C:\xampp\tmp\ph...')
#2 C:\xampp\htdocs\wimax.shabdiznet.com\application\controllers\ImportController.php(56): Application_Model_Functions::Read_Excel('C:\xampp\tmp\ph...')
#3 C:\xampp\htdocs\wimax.shabdiznet.com\library\Zend\Controller\Action.php(516): ImportController->indexAction()
#4 C:\xampp\htdocs\wimax.shabdiznet.com\library\Zend\Controller\Dispatcher\Standard.php(295): Zend_Controller_Action->dispatch('indexAction')
#5 C:\xampp\htdocs\wimax.shabdiznet.com\library\Zend\Controller\Front.php(954): Zend_Controller_Dispatcher_Standard->dispatch(Object(Zend_Controller_Request_Http), Object(Zend_Controller_Response_Http))
#6 C:\xampp\htdocs\wimax.shabdiznet.com\library\Zend\Application\Bootstrap\Bootstrap.php(97): Zend_Controller_Front->dispatch()
#7 C:\xampp\htdocs\wimax.shabdiznet.com\library\Zend\Application.php(366): Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap->run()
#8 C:\xampp\htdocs\wimax.shabdiznet.com\public\index.php(25): Zend_Application->run()
#9 {main}

[MarkBaker]

It means that PHPExcel has found something in your particular xlsx file that it can't handle correctly; but I'd need a copy of the file itself to try and identify what it was

[dr-abadis]

Here is the file:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ca8fwoq6c3ey8ar/22.xlsx
It is about Wimax modems.I just get the first row.but there is persian characters in the file.the problem is on load function and to solve you can just open file with excel and press save and then close it. in that case the load function will work and no error happens but if you use the file directly it will raise error.thanks in advance

[marten-z]

I'm sorry for bumping up this old ticket, but I noticed it is still open and the 'bug' is still present in the current version of PHPExcel 1.8.0. I've noticed that PHPExcel seems unable to handle 'compressed' xlsx files. The 'normal' xlsx files are working smoothly.

Workaround is to open the 'compressed' xlsx file in Excel or LibreOffice Calc and save the file again as xlsx. LibreOffice Calc will automatically save the xlsx file in a format readable by PHPExcel.

See: http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/XLSX

[qiuhaiyu]

you definde cell is too short, you can add some cells
like this:

$cell = array('A1','B1','C1','D1','E1','F1','G1','H1','I1','J1','K1','L1','M1','N1','O1','P1','Q1','R1','S1','T1','U1','V1','W1','X1','Y1','Z1');

[lpillon]

@dr-abadis any change on this status?
I'm getting the same problem with just one type of file.. if I get the file and save again, it'll work fine.
But if I use the normal excel file and try to force the coordinates as the default 'A1', it get my rows as [];