Question

I’m building a CSV import where the first row is the column names of everything else. Instead of having $row[0] I’d like to use $row['id'] to keep the code readable and make it easier for future developers. The problem is… I can’t think of an efficient way to do this…

while (($current = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, "\t")) !== false) {
    if ($row == 0) {

    }
}

The only methods I can think of require a bit of legwork and I’d like to just have a simple solution that’s clean and easy (every developers dream, I know). So I thought I’d post here and see if someone had a better method than what I’m thinking…

Answer 1

Nevermind… just found array_combine on PHP.net… it looks like exactly what I need

 <?php
$a = array('green', 'red', 'yellow');
$b = array('avocado', 'apple', 'banana');
$c = array_combine($a, $b);

print_r($c);
?>

Array
(
    [green]  => avocado
    [red]    => apple
    [yellow] => banana
)

I’d delete my question but I think this would be useful for some people to know…