damonjones / easycsv

Set of PHP 5.3 classes for reading and writing CSV files.

EasyCSV

Set of PHP 5.3 classes for reading and writing CSV files.

Reader

To read CSV files we need to instantiate the EasyCSV reader class:

$reader = new \EasyCSV\Reader('read.csv');

If the first row of the file has column names, they will be read and used as keys for the returned row data. If the file doesn't have a header row then you can pass a flag in the constructor to disable this behaviour. If you want to manually set the headers, then pass an array of column names:

$reader->setHeaders(array('column1', 'column2', 'column3'));

If headers are set, each row of returned data will be an associative array with the column names as keys.

You can iterate over the rows one at a time:

while ($row = $reader->getRow()) {
    print_r($row);
}

Or you can get everything all at once:

print_r($reader->getAll());

Writer

To write CSV files we need to instantiate the EasyCSV writer class:

$writer = new \EasyCSV\Writer('write.csv');

You can write a row by passing a comma-separated string:

$writer->writeRow('column1, column2, column3');

Or you can pass an array:

$writer->writeRow(array('column1', 'column2', 'column3'));

You can also write several rows at once:

$writer->writeFromArray(array(
        'value1, value2, value3',
        array('value1', 'value2', 'value3')
));

TAB or other-delimited files

Both Reader and Writer classes will accept a delimiter character (default ',') and an enclosure character (default '"'). In this case, you should replace the comma with whichever delimeter you have set in all the examples above.