Importables

• Importing
• Queuing
• To array
• To collection

In the previous example, we used the Excel::import facade to start an import.

Laravel Excel also provides a Maatwebsite\Excel\Concerns\Importable trait, to make import classes importable.

namespace App\Imports;

use App\User;
use Maatwebsite\Excel\Concerns\ToModel;
use Maatwebsite\Excel\Concerns\Importable;

class UsersImport implements ToModel
{
    use Importable;

    public function model(array $row)
    {
        return new User([
            'name' => $row[0],
        ]);
    }
}

Importing

We can now import without the need for the facade:

(new UsersImport)->import('users.xlsx', 'local', \Maatwebsite\Excel\Excel::XLSX);

Queuing

Or queue the import:

(new UsersImport)->queue('users.xlsx');

To array

The import can be loaded into an array :

$array = (new UsersImport)->toArray('users.xlsx');

To collection

The import can be loaded into a collection:

$collection = (new UsersImport)->toCollection('users.xlsx');