Question

How do I get my array to display correctly with column headers and values? Should I convert the array to a string first somehow? But then how do I get it to display right with columns and rows?

I’m getting data from a CSV file sent to an array called $data.

$data = curl_exec($ch);

When I echo the $data it looks like this…

    CODE: 

echo $data[0];
echo $data[1];
echo $data[2];
echo $data[3];
echo $data[4];
echo $data[5];
echo $data[6];
echo $data[7];
echo $data[8];
echo $data[9];
echo $data[10];
echo $data[11];
echo $data[12];
echo $data[13];
echo $data[14];
echo $data[15];
echo $data[16];
echo $data[17];
echo $data[18];
echo $data[19];

OUTPUT:

“number”,”priority”,

As you can already tell 0=”, 1=n, 2=u, 3=m 4=b, 5=e, 6=r, 7=”, 8=, etc. “number”,

Answer 1

The CSV file is returned as a string, so accessing $data[1] is the same as substr($data,1,1). The simplest way for you to do this would be to save it to a file and then use fgetcsv:

file_put_contents('tmp.csv',$data);
$row = 1;
if (($handle = fopen("tmp.csv", "r")) !== FALSE) {
    while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE) {
        $num = count($data);
        echo "<p> $num fields in line $row: <br /></p>\n";
        $row++;
        for ($c=0; $c < $num; $c++) {
            echo $data[$c] . "<br />\n";
        }
    }
    fclose($handle);
}