Hope this is helpful to someone out there. If you want to load some translations for your application, don't use csv files for that, even if it's easier to handle. Only problem with fgetcsv , at least in PHP 4. I can't find a direct way to deal with it, since fgetcsv doesn't give you a chance to manipulate the line before it reads it and parses it Otherwise this is perfect for that Microsoft-CSV formula, deals gracefully with all the issues. Here's something I put together this morning.
It allows you to read rows from your CSV and get values based on the name of the column. This works great when your header columns are not always in the same order; like when you're processing many feeds from different customers.
Also makes for cleaner, easier to manage code. I used fgetcsv to read pipe-delimited data files, and ran into the following quirk. In this particular case it is easy to spot, but my script was processing thousands of records and it took me some time to figure out what went wrong. The annoying thing is, that there doesn't seem to be an elegant fix. So you'd have to resort to a solution where you use an extremely unlikely enclosure, but since the enclosure can only be one character long, it may be hard to find.
I've had alot of projects recently dealing with csv files, so I created the following class to read a csv file and return an array of arrays with the column names as keys. The only requirement is that the 1st row contain the column headings. I only wrote it today, so I'll probably expand on it in the near future.
For anyone else struggling with disappearing non-latin characters in one-byte encodings - setting LANG env var as the manual states does not help at all. This is how to read a csv file into a multidimensional array. The fgetcsv function seems to follow the MS excel conventions, which means: - The quoting character is escaped by itself and not the back slash. Let's use the double quote " as the quoting character: Two double quotes "" will give a single " once parsed, if they are inside a quoted field otherwise neither of them will be removed.
Follow Post Reply. David Precious. That ought to do the trick. Hi and thanks for the reply. Yes, using fopen like that would work, but I liked reading the file into an array because I didn't have to open the file - no flock to deal with, more efficient, etc Chung Leong. I think you want fgets instead of fread. This discussion thread is closed Start new discussion.
Similar topics PHP. How to read file into keyed array? Every now and then, you will have to read and process a large file in PHP. If you are not careful when reading a large file, you will often end up exhausting all the memory of your server. However, there is no need to worry because PHP already provides a lot of inbuilt functions to read large files by large I mean files with size over 1GB either line by line or one chunk at a time.
In this article, you will learn about the pros and cons of all these techniques. You can use the file function in PHP to read an entire file into an array. This function stores each line along with the newline character in its own array element. If you intended to read a file line by line and store the result in an array, the file function seems to a natural choice. One major drawback of this method is that it will read the whole file at once.
In other words, it solves the problem of reading a file one line at a time but it still reads the whole file at once. In the technique below, we're using the explode string function to create an array from each line of text. Here's the code this assumes that you've been following along from the previous sections :.
The lines to examine are in blue; the rest you have met before get a file handle, loop round, use fgets to read the line.
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