Question

I’ve a php script which loads basically just one csv via:

echo json_encode(file(csvfile.csv, FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES));

The output is something like this:

[“foo,bar,baz”,”foo, foo,bar”,”bla,bla,blubb”]

In my basic html file I load it in this way:

 $(document).ready(function(){
    $.getJSON("curlcsvfetcher.php", function(data) { 
    $('#data').empty();
    var columnseperator     =  "|";
    var commentindicator    = "#"; 
    var textqualifier   = '"' 
    filltable2(data,columnseperator,commentindicator,textqualifier); }
 );

This works great with the function filltable() but not with filltable2():

function filltable(data,columnseperator,commentindicator,textqualifier){
    var table_obj = $('table');
    $.each(data, function(index, item){
         table_obj.append($('<tr id="'+item+'"><td>'+item+'</td></tr>'));
    }).insertAfter('.table');
} 
function filltable2(data,columnseperator,commentindicator,textqualifier){
    var table_obj = $('table');
    var trstart = '<tr>';
    var trend = '</tr>';
    $.each(data, function(index, item){
        table_obj.append($('<tr id="'+item+'"><td>'+item+'</td></tr>'));
        var columns = data.split(columnseperator);
        var tddata = '';
        for (var column in columns){
            tddata = tddata +'<td>'+column+'</td>';
            }
        var rowdata = trstart + tddata + trend;
        table_obj.append($(rowdata));

    }).insertAfter('.table');
} 

The function filltable() generate the output with one column and 3 rows.
But now I want to explode each line in (this case 3) columns.

There must be a problem with my code in function filltable2() and I don’t know what I am doing wrong.

The output of filltable2() is just one line in the table.

Thank you very much!

PS: This problem is related to my last question but I think the basic problem is unrelated, so i created a new question

Answer 1

I think it’s because in the split line, you’re giving it:

data.split(columnseperator);

When you mean

item.split(columnseperator);

or

data[index].split(columnseperator);