Can't print Excel file values

Question

I need to read an Excel file and record it on my database. I'm using Laravel + Maatwebsite/Laravel-excel to Read the file. With my currently code I get no errors but no data is shown in the browser:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Requests;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
Use Excel;

class ImportController extends Controller
{
    public function index()
    {
        Excel::load('test.xls', function($reader) {
            $result = $reader->get();

            foreach ($result as $key => $value) {
                echo $value->situation;
            }


        })->get();   

    }
} 

var_dump($result)

object(Maatwebsite\\Excel\\Collections\\RowCollection)#634 (2) { ["title":protected]=> string(9) "Worksheet" ["items":protected]=> array(161) { [0]=> object(Maatwebsite\\Excel\\Collections\\CellCollection)#646 (2) { ["title":protected]=> NULL ["items":protected]=> array(1) { [0]=> NULL } } 1 =>

Answer 1

You can loop the result via:

// Loop through all sheets
$reader->each(function($sheet) {

    // Loop through all rows
    $sheet->each(function($row) {

    });

});

On http://www.maatwebsite.nl/laravel-excel/docs/import you can find more information.