Question

I’m importing a .CSV into an application with the following:

if (($handle = fopen($file, "r")) !== FALSE) {
    while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE) {
        $num = count($data);
        echo "<p> $num fields in line $row: <br /></p>\n";
        $row++;
        for ($c=0; $c < $num; $c++) {
            echo $data[$c] . "<br />\n";
        }
    }
    fclose($handle);
}

It sort of works but it’s far from perfect. I wanted to first get out the row heads and put them into an array and then loop round each row to get the data sets in.

It seems to be having delimitting problems as the first row (heads) are also including a few parts of the second row.

I exported the .csv file straight from Excel. Wonder if there are encoding tricks etc I might be missing.

Answer 1

fgetcsv doesnt always properly detect line endings.

Try using before the fgetcsv call:

ini_set('auto_detect_line_endings', true);