During import... Undefined variable: fileHandle

[bruceoutdoors]

I tried a simple piece of code:

Route::get('excel-import', function() {
    $path = public_path() . '\members.csv';
    Excel::load($path)->dump();
});

And Laravel 4.1 tells me this:

ErrorException: Undefined variable: fileHandle

It pin point me to \vendor\phpoffice\phpexcel\Classes\PHPExcel\Reader\CSV.php which I fixed the error by changing line 147:

rewind($fileHandle);

to

rewind($this->_fileHandle);

Tada! problem fixed.

[MaatwebsiteSupport]

Hey

Thanks for sending in this issue.

I see it's an issue with the 1.7.9 of phpExcel version, I see your fixe is inside 1.8.0, but first have to test it tomorrow morning before I update the composer.json.

[mewben]

The fix above worked for me too... 👍

[ashawkat]

I've tried to import an xls file but unable to import it. Is there any way to import xls or xlsx llike csv upload?