title: importing basics in laravel excel
body: <p>I'm trying to understand how could I use laravel/excel to import my excel files</p>
  
  <p>I tried to do like :</p>
  
  <pre><code>public function import()
      { 
          $path = public_path();
          Excel::load($path.'/file.xlsx', function($reader) {
  
              $firstrow = $reader-&gt;first()-&gt;toArray();
              dd($firstrow);
  
          });
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but when I dump anything dont get any dump from laravel,</p>
  
  <p>this is the data from my excel:</p>
  
  <pre><code>item    spool   junta
  1       test1   j1
  2       test2   j2
  3       test3   j3
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>is a simple file just to test but nothing happen, i just get a blank page without my dump</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance for help!</p>