README

This library aims to offer advanced support for CSV in PHP. This includes charset conversions, proper handling of escape sequences and byte order marks (for UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32).

The CSV writer also supports "always quoting" and custom line-breaks (EOL).

Writer usage

Following example is quite self-explaining:

$writer = new CsvWriter();
$writer
	->setDelimiter(';')
	->setEnclosure("'")
	->setEscape('\\')
	->setAlwaysQuote(true)
	->open($resource)
	->writeLine(['a', 'b', 'c'])
	->close();

You may also pass your data as associative array with column keys if you define columns first. This allows to omit empty columns:

$writer = new CsvWriter();
$writer
	->open($resource)
	->columns(['a' => 'Col A', 'b' => 'Col B', 'c' => 'Col C'])
	->writeData(['a' => 15, 'b' => 16, 'c' => 17])
	->writeData(['a' => 15, 'b' => 16])
	->close();

Reader usage

$reader = new CsvReader();
$reader
    ->setDelimiter(';')
    ->setEnclosure("'")
    ->setEscape('\\')
    ->open($resource);
    
while (($line = $reader->readLine()) !== false) {
    var_dump($line);
}

$reader->close();    

To receive associative arrays with column keys, columns can be read from first line and use the readData() method:

$reader = new CsvReader();
$row = $reader
    ->open($resource)
    ->readColumns()
    ->readData();

If columns are not present in file, they can be set manually:

$reader = new CsvReader();
$row = $reader
    ->open($resource)
    ->setColumns(['a', 'b'])
    ->readData();

Casting values

Following example demonstrates the usage of casts, for easy reading data types:

 $reader = new CsvReader();
 $row = $reader
     ->open($resource)
     ->setColumns(['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'])
     ->setCasts(
        'a' => 'number',
        'b' => 'json',
        'c' => 'split:|'
        'd' => function($v) {
            return 'x-' . $v;
        },
        'e' => 'number:,:.',
     );
     ->readData();

If a value cannot be casted, null will be returned for the field.