Question

Here is the code which I am using to pull data from a public google docs spreadsheet (exported as a CSV).

<?php
// link to Google Docs spreadsheet
$url='https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=xxxx&output=csv';

// open file for reading
if (($handle = fopen($url, "r")) !== FALSE)
{
    while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE)
    {
        $totalrows = count($data);
        for ($row=0; $row<=$totalrows; $row++)
        {           
            if (strlen($data[$row])>0)
            {

                $firstname = $data[1];
                $surname = $data[1];

                echo $firstname;
                echo $surname;
            }
        }
        echo '<pre>';
        print_r($data);
        echo '</pre>';
    }
    fclose($handle);
}
exit;

?>

The output I am getting is as follows:

MartinMartin

Array
(
    [0] => Firstname
    [1] => Martin
)

CarlinCarlin

Array
(
    [0] => Surname
    [1] => Carlin
)

I am just confused as to what I am doing wrong, I am looking to be able to set the data as variables so that they can be echoed later in the script.

i.e.

<?php echo $firstname; ?> 

Should echo Martin, not MartinMartin.

This is how the data is stored in the spreadsheet:

    A          B
1  Firstname Martin
2  Surname   Carlin

Any help appreciated!

Update

Changed the structure now as follows (sorry for the long-windedness and repetition):

// open file for reading
if (($handle = fopen($url, "r")) !== FALSE)
{
    while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE)
    {
        for ($row = 0; $row < count($data); $row += 2)
        {
            $firstname = $data[$row][1];
            $surname = $data[$row + 1][1];
        }



    }
    fclose($handle);
}
echo 'Firstname: '.$firstname.'<br /><br />';
echo 'Surname: '.$surname;
exit;

Answer 1

You are getting MartinMartin because you are setting firstname and surname to the same data[1] value and echoing both out together per row iteration. If you comment out echo $surname, you will find that it does just output Martin. Bear in mind that Martin’s surname Carlin is on a different row to his first name too, so you won’t be able to just do $surname = $data[1] to get it. You would need to look ahead to the next row to get his surname. You’d probably want to iterate the $row array in 2-step fashion so you could index $data[$i][1] and $data[$i + 1][1] for first name and surname.

$rows = array();
while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE)
{
    $rows[] = $data;
}

fclose($handle);

for ($i = 1; $i < count($rows); $i += 2) 
{
    $first = $rows[$i][1];
    $surname = $rows[$i + 1][1];
}