Question

I know about fgetcsv, but it doesn’t really do what I’m looking for.

I have the following csv file:

productId,productName,productActive
1,test product,1
2,test product2,0

I’m looking for something that will create an array that looks like this:

array (0)
    ['productId'] => 1
    ['productName'] => test product
    ['productActive'] => 1

array (1)
    ['productId'] => 2
    ['productName'] => test product2
    ['productActive'] => 0

any ideas?

Answer 1

// open the file.
if (($handle = fopen("in.csv", "r")) !== FALSE) {
        // read the column headers in an array.
        $head = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",");

        // read the actual data.
        while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE) {

                // create a new array with the elements in $head as keys
                // and elements in array $data as values.
                $combined = array_combine($head,$data);

                // print.
                var_dump($combined);
        }
        // done using the file..close it,
        fclose($handle);
}

See it