Creating arrays from csv columns in PHP

Question

I've never worked with csv files before and I'm hoping to create arrays in php from the columns.

So for example the csv would look something like this:

Name, Address, DOB

john doe, 22 grove street, 06,06,2006

i'd like each of the columns to be an array named by the column headings. Any time I parse the file(test.csv) i get arrays of the table rows instead.

Answer 1

Following code will do the work for you. And you can see the real working script of the exactcode at this url:

http://sugunan.net/demo/csv1.php

$i=0;
$filename = 'data1.csv';
$contents = file($filename);



foreach($contents as $line) {
    $line = preg_replace( "/\r|\n/", "", $line );
    $line_array = explode(",",$line);
    if($i==0)
    {
        foreach($line_array as $key=>$val)
        {
            $csv_heading[$key] = trim($val);
        }
    }
    else
    {
        foreach($line_array as $key=>$val)
        {
            $csv_array[$i][$csv_heading[$key]] = $val;
        }
    }
    $i++;
}

print_r($csv_array);

data file url: http://sugunan.net/demo/data1.csv