CSVReader

Category:Libraries::CSV

[h3]CSV Formatted Data Reader[/h3]

This is a utility class built to support my own strategy for multilingual and translation management as explained in the [url=http://www.codeigniter.com/Wiki/LangBuilder]LangBuilder[/url] entry.

But I'm sure you'll find other kind of usage...

[h3]Requirements[/h3]

• CI: tested on 1.5.3
• PHP: tested on 5.2.1

[h3]The library code[/h3]

[code]<?php if (!defined('BASEPATH')) exit('No direct script access allowed'); /**

• CSVReader Class

• $Id: csvreader.php 136 2007-05-30 15:36:00Z Pierre-Jean $

• Allows to retrieve a CSV file content as a two dimensional array.

• The first text line shall contains the column names.

• Let's consider the following CSV formatted data:

•    col1;col2;col3 
  

•     11;12;13
  

•     21;22;23
  

• It's returned as follow by the parsing operations:

•     Array(
  

•         [0] => Array(
  

•                 [col1] => 11,
  

•                 [col2] => 12,
  

•                 [col3] => 13
  

•         )
  

•         [1] => Array(
  

•                 [col1] => 21,
  

•                 [col2] => 22,
  

•                 [col3] => 23
  

•         )
  

•    )
  

• @author Pierre-Jean Turpeau

• @link http://www.codeigniter.com/wiki/CSVReader */ class CSVReader {

  var $fields; /** columns names retrieved after parsing / var $separator = ';'; /* separator used to explode each line */

  /**

  • Parse a text containing CSV formatted data.
  • @access public
  • @param string
  • @return array */ function parseText($p_Text) { $lines = explode("\n", $p_Text); return $this->parseLines($lines); }

  /**

  • Parse a file containing CSV formatted data.
  • @access public
  • @param string
  • @return array */ function parseFile($p_Filepath) { $lines = file($p_Filepath) return $this->parseLines($lines); }

  /**

  • Parse an array of text lines containing CSV formatted data.

  • @access public

  • @param array

  • @return array */ function parseLines($p_CSVLines) {
    $content = FALSE; foreach( $p_CSVLines as $line_num => $line ) { if( $line != '' ) { // skip empty lines $elements = split($this->separator, $line);

         if( !is_array($content) ) { // the first line contains fields names
             $this->_fields = $elements;
             $content = array();
         } else {
             $item = array();
             foreach( $this->_fields as $id => $field ) {
                 $item[$field] = $elements[$id];
             }
             $content[] = $item;
         }
     }
    

    } return $content; } } ?> [/code]