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OOP wrapper for PHP's csv functions, with column mapping for easy code maintenance.

Easy to use and maintain the code using it

The code can be easily adopted to changing requirements and input file formats.

Consider CSV data of the world's heaviest animals having position, animal and weight in 1 line as column headings.

<?php
use \Okneloper\Csv\Stream\Input\FileStream;
use \Okneloper\Csv\CsvReader;

// read CSV data from a file
$dataSource = new FileStream($file);

// creata a reader
$csv = new CsvReader($dataSource);

// read rows one by one
while ($row = $csv->read()) {
    echo $row->position; // value for the row in column 0 with header 'position'
    echo $row->animal;   // value for the row in column 1 with header 'animal'
    echo $row->weight;   // value for the row in column 2 with header 'weight'
    echo $row["weight"]; // also supports array syntax 
}

Usage

Use a CSV file as a data source

    $dataSource = new \Okneloper\Csv\Stream\Input\FileStream($file);

Or alternatively use a string containing CSV data

    $dataSource = new \Okneloper\Csv\Stream\StringStream("position,animal,weight\n1,Blue whale,180 tonnes\n2,African Elephant,6350 kg\n3,Brown Bear,1 ton");

Create a reader using the data source

    $csv = new \Okneloper\Csv\CsvReader($dataSource);

Read the data

    while ($row = $csv->read()) {
        print_r($row->toArray());
    }

Mapped data can be accessed as array elements:

echo $row['position'];

or object properties:

echo $row->position;

Column mapping

Mapping to header

By default, the data is mapped to the header row.

$csv = new \Okneloper\Csv\CsvReader($dataSource);

Outputs

Array
(
    [position] => 1
    [animal] => Blue whale
    [weight] => 180 tonnes
)
...

Custom mapping

If you get a new CSV to process every once in a regularly and the column order or names may change, custom mapping helps to deal with it:

$csv = new \Okneloper\Csv\CsvReader($dataSource, true, ['Nr', 'Who', 'HowMuch']);

Array
(
    [Nr] => 1
    [Who] => Blue whale
    [HowMuch] => 180 tonnes
)
...

No header

$csv = new \Okneloper\Csv\CsvReader($dataSource, false, ['Nr', 'Who', 'HowMuch']);

Array
(
    [Nr] => position
    [Who] => animal
    [HowMuch] => weight
)
Array
(
    [Nr] => 1
    [Who] => Blue whale
    [HowMuch] => 180 tonnes
)
...

No header, no mapping

$csv = new \Okneloper\Csv\CsvReader($dataSource, false, null);

Array
(
    [0] => position
    [1] => animal
    [2] => weight
)
Array
(
    [0] => 1
    [1] => Blue whale
    [2] => 180 tonnes
)
...