Urgent - During import showing dates instead of data in xls file

[ashawkat]

I'm trying to import dummy data from xls file. But instead of showing data i'm getting todays date. my xls file data are:
a b c d
adnan shawkat something done
asdfasd asdfsadf asdfasdf asdfsda

 if (Input::hasFile('file')){
        $file = Input::file('file');
        $ext = Input::file('file')->getClientOriginalExtension();
        echo $ext;
        if ($ext == "csv" || $ext == "xlsx" || $ext == 'xls'){
            echo "<pre>"; print_r(Excel::load($file, true)->select(array('a', 'd'))->dump());
            return "OK";
            }
        else return "not our type";
    } else return "not ok";

In the above code section i'm only getting the dates as output please see the output below:

xls

Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[a] => 2014-03-06
[d] => 2014-03-06
)

[1] => Array
    (
        [a] => 2014-03-06
        [d] => 2014-03-06
    )

)

OK

Can anyone please tell me what is wrong in there? It's getting the first row as heading but no data only dates why? Urgent please give me a solution.

[ashawkat]

I've tried to import an xls file but unable to import it. When importing a csv file according to earlier issue I've fixed that but still I can't import xls file. Is there any way to import xls or xlsx llike csv upload?

[MaatwebsiteSupport]

I made an excel file with your data and imported it with the class, but I just get the values, not the dates.
Are you sure your file is okay? When cells are formatted as dates, PHPExcel will format them to dates.
If you really want to stop parsing date cells, you could use the ->formatDates(false) chain.

[ashawkat]

I didn't knew that well. It works right now. Thanks a lot.

[MaatwebsiteSupport]

You're welcome! :)