Question

I am new at php programming but I have been stuck with this code for some time.
I would like to read a .csv file line by line and then save its values in a list of arrays.

$file = fopen('Sub-Companies.csv', 'r');    
while (($line =
fgetcsv($file)) !== FALSE) { 
print_r($line);
list($customer_id[],$company_name[],$department[],$employee[],$country[],$zipcode[],$address[],$city[],
$smth1[], $smth2[], $phone_no1[],$phone_no2[],$email[],$website[],
$customer_no[],$problem1[],$problem2[]) = explode(";",$line);  }
fclose($file); var_dump($customer_id);

The problem is that, although it is read correctly the file, then the explode is not working and the arrays appear to be null.

One thing that I am considering is that some arrays have more “;” than others, so that might be a problem, that is why I have the arrays $problem1 and $problem2, in order to store the values of this arrays.

Any help would be great!

Answer 1

You’re using fgetcsv() in the wrong way.

We’ve come to this solution while chatting here on StackOverflow.

<?php
// Create file data.csv with your data
$handle = fopen('Sub-Companies.csv', 'r');

$customer_id = array();
$xyz_array = array();
// ...

// Better use a specified length (second parameter) instead of 0
// It slows down the whole process of reading the data!
while (($line = fgetcsv($handle, 0, ';')) !== FALSE) {
  $customer_id[] = $line[0];
    $xyz_array[] = $line[1];
}