Question

I have the following PHP script which reads from two CSV files, At the moment I am putting the data into a table however I need it to output to a CSV file…

<?php

$products_file = fopen('Products.csv', 'r');
$manufacturers_file = fopen('Manufacturers.csv', 'r');

$manufacturers = array();

while (($manufacturers_line = fgetcsv($manufacturers_file)) !== FALSE) {

     $manufacturers[$manufacturers_line[0]] = $manufacturers_line [1];

    }

echo '<table><tr><th>SKU</th><th>Make and Model</th><th>Make and Model</th></tr>';

while (($products_line = fgetcsv($products_file)) !== FALSE ) {

  echo '<tr><td>'.$products_line[3].'</td><td>';

  echo $manufacturers[$products_line[5]];

  echo '</td><td>'.$products_line[4].'</td></tr>';
}

echo '</table>';

fclose($products_file);
fclose($manufacturers_file);

?>

How can I do this using fputcsv ?

Answer 1

I’d suggest this:

$outfile = fopen('output.csv', 'w');

while (($products_line = fgetcsv($products_file)) !== FALSE 
      && fputcsv(
        array($products_line[3], $manufacturers[$products_line[5]], $products_line[4]
      ) !== FALSE) {
  echo '<tr><td>'.$products_line[3].'</td><td>';
  echo $manufacturers[$products_line[5]];
  echo '</td><td>'.$products_line[4].'</td></tr>';
}

First, a new array is being created with
array($products_line[3], $manufacturers[$products_line[5]], $products_line[4].
Then this array is being fed to fputcsv().

The above code outputs both csv and html. Remove the echo if you don’t want html output.