Question

I am having troubles reading a CSV file. So far, I am able to open the CSV and read the first line.

My CSV file looks like this (notice each new line):

SMITH
PHIL
CHARLIE
SALLY
ETC

I save the file in excel as a CSV, but it is getting caught up on each line break.

My current code looks like this:

<?php 
$file = fopen('surnames.csv', 'r');

$data = fgetcsv($file);

echo "<pre>";
print_r($data);
echo "</pre>";

fclose($file);

?>

Current output is

Array
(
    [0] => SMITH
)

Any help is appreciated. My anticipated output is obviously a single array with all of the values.

Thank you.

Answer 1

You have to loop over each line to read the whole file, otherwise you’re only reading the first line in the file:

$data = array();
while( ($line = fgetcsv($handle)) !== false) {
    $data[] = $line;
}

Now $data will be a multidimensional array with every line from the CSV file.