Mapped Cells

In case you have a more custom spreadsheet and only want to access specific cells, you can implement the WithMappedCells concern.

You might have a speadsheet looking like this:

name	Patrick Brouwers
email	patrick@maatwebsite.nl

We can now map name to B1 and email to B2. The value of those coordinates will then be available under the given array key.

namespace App\Imports;

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

class UsersImport implements WithMappedCells, ToModel 
{
    public function mapping(): array
    {
        return [
            'name'  => 'B1',
            'email' => 'B2',
        ];
    }
    
    public function model(array $row)
    {
        return new User([
            'name' => $row['name'],
            'email' => $row['email'],
        ]);
    }
}

This concern is not meant to map columns, only specific cell reference are allowed.