Rows with header values as keys'; if ($xlsx = SimpleXLSX::parse('books.xlsx')) { // Produce array keys from the array values of 1st array element $header_values = $rows = []; foreach ($xlsx->rows() as $k => $r) { if ($k === 0) { $header_values = $r; continue; } $rows[] = array_combine($header_values, $r); } print_r($rows); /* Array ( [0] => Array ( [ISBN] => 618260307 [title] => The Hobbit [author] => J. R. R. Tolkien [publisher] => Houghton Mifflin [ctry] => USA ) [1] => Array ( [ISBN] => 908606664 [title] => Slinky Malinki [author] => Lynley Dodd [publisher] => Mallinson Rendel [ctry] => NZ ) ) */ }