fix ghost columns

public/userarea/gridRenderer.js

@@ -679,9 +679,7 @@
         div.style.position = "relative";
 
         let html = "";
-        if (meta.isAdmin) {
+        html += `<button type="button" class="export-lims-btn action-btn" data-row="${rowIndex}" data-iddatadb="${row.iddatadb}" title="${isExported ? "Already exported" : "Export to LIMS"}" style="background:${isExported ? "#ccc" : "#eb0b0b"}; color:white; border:none; border-radius:5px; cursor:${isExported ? "not-allowed" : "pointer"}; ${isExported ? "opacity:0.5;" : ""}" ${isExported ? "disabled" : ""}><i class="fas fa-upload"></i></button>`;
-            html += `<button type="button" class="export-lims-btn action-btn" data-row="${rowIndex}" data-iddatadb="${row.iddatadb}" title="${isExported ? "Already exported" : "Export to LIMS"}" style="background:${isExported ? "#ccc" : "#eb0b0b"}; color:white; border:none; border-radius:5px; cursor:${isExported ? "not-allowed" : "pointer"}; ${isExported ? "opacity:0.5;" : ""}" ${isExported ? "disabled" : ""}><i class="fas fa-upload"></i></button>`;
-        }
         html += `<button type="button" class="save-btn action-btn" data-row="${rowIndex}" title="Save" style="background:#28a745; color:white; border:none; border-radius:5px; cursor:pointer;"><i class="fas fa-save"></i></button>`;
         html += `<button type="button" class="photos-btn action-btn" data-row="${rowIndex}" data-iddatadb="${row.iddatadb}" title="Photos" style="background:#007bff; color:white; border:none; border-radius:5px; cursor:pointer;"><i class="fas fa-camera"></i></button>`;
         html += `<button type="button" class="parts-btn action-btn" data-row="${rowIndex}" data-iddatadb="${row.iddatadb}" title="Parts" style="background:#ffc107; color:white; border:none; border-radius:5px; cursor:pointer;"><i class="fas fa-puzzle-piece"></i></button>`;

public/userarea/process_import_xls2.php

@@ -53,7 +53,44 @@ function normalizeColumnIndex($value): int
     return 1;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Trim a cell value treating invisible/Unicode spaces as empty.
+ * PHP's native trim() strips only ASCII whitespace (" \t\n\r\0\x0B"), so a cell
+ * that contains only a non-breaking space (U+00A0), zero-width space (U+200B),
+ * BOM (U+FEFF) or another Unicode space looks blank to a human but would still
+ * count as "filled" — pulling a ghost column into the import or retaining a
+ * visually-empty row. Normalize those to a real space before trimming.
+ */
+function cleanCellText($value): string
+{
+    $raw = (string)$value;
+    $cleaned = preg_replace(
+        '/[\x{00A0}\x{200B}\x{FEFF}\x{2000}-\x{200A}\x{202F}\x{205F}\x{3000}]+/u',
+        ' ',
+        $raw
+    );
+
+    // preg_replace returns null on malformed UTF-8; fall back to the raw value.
+    return trim($cleaned ?? $raw);
+}
+
 try {
+    // Quando il body POST supera post_max_size, PHP scarta $_POST e $_FILES
+    // (warning "Content-Length exceeds the limit ... in Unknown on line 0") e lo
+    // script riceve una richiesta vuota. Lo intercettiamo per dare un messaggio
+    // chiaro invece di "Richiesta non valida".
+    if (
+        $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] === 'POST'
+        && empty($_POST) && empty($_FILES)
+        && (int)($_SERVER['CONTENT_LENGTH'] ?? 0) > 0
+    ) {
+        $postMax = ini_get('post_max_size');
+        throw new Exception(
+            "Il file caricato supera il limite di upload del server (post_max_size = {$postMax}). " .
+                "Chiedi all'amministratore di aumentare post_max_size e upload_max_filesize."
+        );
+    }
+
     if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] === 'POST' && isset($_FILES['excel_file'])) {
         $template_id = isset($_POST['template_id']) ? intval($_POST['template_id']) : 0;
 
@@ -162,7 +199,9 @@ try {
                 $response['error'] = "Nessun mapping trovato per il template con ID $template_id";
             } else {
                 // Carica il file rinominato con PHPSpreadsheet
-                $spreadsheet = IOFactory::load($destination);
+                $reader = IOFactory::createReaderForFile($destination);
+                $reader->setReadEmptyCells(false);
+                $spreadsheet = $reader->load($destination);
 
                 $sheetCount = $spreadsheet->getSheetCount();
                 $sheetNames = $spreadsheet->getSheetNames();
@@ -189,8 +228,8 @@ try {
 
                 error_log("Selected XLS sheet - index: {$xlsSheetIndex}, name: {$selectedSheetName}");
 
-                $highestRow = $worksheet->getHighestRow();
+                $highestRow = $worksheet->getHighestDataRow();
-                $highestColumn = $worksheet->getHighestColumn();
+                $highestColumn = $worksheet->getHighestDataColumn();
                 $highestColumnIndex = Coordinate::columnIndexFromString($highestColumn);
 
                 $startRow = max(1, $header_row);
@@ -199,7 +238,7 @@ try {
                 // Advance startColumn to first non-empty cell in header row, matching JS behavior
                 for ($sc = $startColumn; $sc <= $highestColumnIndex; $sc++) {
                     $cl = Coordinate::stringFromColumnIndex($sc);
-                    $cv = trim((string)($worksheet->getCell($cl . $header_row)->getCalculatedValue() ?? ''));
+                    $cv = cleanCellText($worksheet->getCell($cl . $header_row)->getCalculatedValue() ?? '');
 
                     if ($cv !== '') {
                         $startColumn = $sc;
@@ -207,6 +246,19 @@ try {
                     }
                 }
 
+                $lastHeaderCol = $startColumn;
+                for ($hc = $startColumn; $hc <= $highestColumnIndex; $hc++) {
+                    $hl = Coordinate::stringFromColumnIndex($hc);
+                    $hv = cleanCellText($worksheet->getCell($hl . $header_row)->getCalculatedValue() ?? '');
+
+                    if ($hv !== '') {
+                        $lastHeaderCol = $hc;
+                    }
+                }
+
+                $highestColumnIndex = $lastHeaderCol;
+                $highestColumn = Coordinate::stringFromColumnIndex($highestColumnIndex);
+
                 // Debug dei parametri
                 error_log(
                     "Processing - template_id: $template_id, " .
@@ -269,7 +321,7 @@ try {
 
                         $columnLetter = Coordinate::stringFromColumnIndex($physCol);
                         $cell = $worksheet->getCell($columnLetter . $header_row);
-                        $cellValue = trim((string)($cell ? $cell->getCalculatedValue() : ''));
+                        $cellValue = cleanCellText($cell ? $cell->getCalculatedValue() : '');
                         $cellValue = preg_replace('/[\r\n\t]+/', ' ', $cellValue);
 
                         // Empty headers get __empty_N__ to match mapping page
@@ -306,7 +358,7 @@ try {
                         $filledCount = 0;
 
                         foreach ($headerFilledIndices as $idx) {
-                            if (isset($rowData[$idx]) && trim((string)$rowData[$idx]) !== '') {
+                            if (isset($rowData[$idx]) && cleanCellText($rowData[$idx]) !== '') {
                                 $filledCount++;
                             }
                         }