phpcsvfgetcsv

How to parse a CSV file using PHP

Suppose I have a .csv file with the following content:

 "text, with commas","another text",123,"text",5; 
 "some    without commas","another text",123,"text";
 "some text with  commas or no",,123,"text";

How can I parse the content through PHP?

Solution

  • Just use the function for parsing a CSV file

    http://php.net/manual/en/function.fgetcsv.php

    $row = 1;
if (($handle = fopen("test.csv", "r")) !== FALSE) {
  while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE) {
    $num = count($data);
    echo "<p> $num fields in line $row: <br /></p>\n";
    $row++;
    for ($c=0; $c < $num; $c++) {
        echo $data[$c] . "<br />\n";
    }
  }
  fclose($handle);
}