PHP Remove columns from csv

Question

I need to remove some columns and the first row from a csv and put the result in a new csv file. I tried already with some sugesstions found here on stack, but none of them will work for me. My csv has 9 columns but i only need 5 of them. The best found solution here to remove the columns seems to be the one i will post below, but i only get commas in the result file and some where some data. The data in my csv are spararted with ';' I hope any one can help me.

Here is the code i played with:

<?php
 $input = 'gesamtbestand.csv';
 $output = 'mw-stock.csv';

 if (false !== ($ih = fopen($input, 'r'))) {
$oh = fopen($output, 'w');

while (false !== ($data = fgetcsv($ih))) {
    // this is where you build your new row
    $outputData = array($data[1], $data[2], $data[4], $data[5], $data[8]);
    fputcsv($oh, $outputData);
}

fclose($ih);
fclose($oh);
}

Answer 1

The default delimiter for fgetcsv is , as you can see in php manual http://php.net/manual/en/function.fgetcsv.php

If your csv file uses ; for delimiter then you should change the line

while (false !== ($data = fgetcsv($ih))) {

to

while (false !== ($data = fgetcsv($ih, 0, ";"))) {

The default enclosure is "

if you don't use an enclosure in your data then you should change the line to

while (false !== ($data = fgetcsv($ih, 0, ";", ""))) {

As for excluding the first entry of the csv file you can do this

$i=0;
while (false !== ($data = fgetcsv($ih))) {
    // this is where you build your new row
    if ($i!=0){
        $outputData = array($data[1], $data[2], $data[4], $data[5], $data[8]);
        fputcsv($oh, $outputData);
    }
$i++;
}