file_put_contents
read from CSV data (file) into an array with named keys
... with or without 1st row = header (keys)
(see 4th parameter of function call as true / false)
<?php
// --------------------------------------------------------------
function csv_in_array($url,$delm=";",$encl="\"",$head=false) {
$csvxrow = file($url); // ---- csv rows to array ----
$csvxrow[0] = chop($csvxrow[0]);
$csvxrow[0] = str_replace($encl,'',$csvxrow[0]);
$keydata = explode($delm,$csvxrow[0]);
$keynumb = count($keydata);
if ($head === true) {
$anzdata = count($csvxrow);
$z=0;
for($x=1; $x<$anzdata; $x++) {
$csvxrow[$x] = chop($csvxrow[$x]);
$csvxrow[$x] = str_replace($encl,'',$csvxrow[$x]);
$csv_data[$x] = explode($delm,$csvxrow[$x]);
$i=0;
foreach($keydata as $key) {
$out[$z][$key] = $csv_data[$x][$i];
$i++;
}
$z++;
}
}
else {
$i=0;
foreach($csvxrow as $item) {
$item = chop($item);
$item = str_replace($encl,'',$item);
$csv_data = explode($delm,$item);
for ($y=0; $y<$keynumb; $y++) {
$out[$i][$y] = $csv_data[$y];
}
$i++;
}
}
return $out;
}
// --------------------------------------------------------------
?>
fuction call with 4 parameters:
(1) = the file with CSV data (url / string)
(2) = colum delimiter (e.g: ; or | or , ...)
(3) = values enclosed by (e.g: ' or " or ^ or ...)
(4) = with or without 1st row = head (true/false)
<?php
// ----- call ------
$csvdata = csv_in_array( $yourcsvfile, ";", "\"", true );
// -----------------
// ----- view ------
echo "<pre>\r\n";
print_r($csvdata);
echo "</pre>\r\n";
// -----------------
?>
PS: also see: http://php.net/manual/de/function.fgetcsv.php to read CSV data into an array
... and other file-handling methods
^
file
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
file — Legge l'intero file in un vettore
Descrizione
array file
( string
$filename
[, int $use_include_path
[, resource $context
]] )
Identica a readfile(), eccetto per il fatto che
file() restituisce il file in un vettore. Ogni
elemento del vettore corrisponde ad una riga del file, con il carattere di
newline ancora inserito. Se la funzione non riesce restituisce
FALSE.
Puoi impostare il secondo parametro, use_include_path, (opzionale) ad "1",
se vuoi cercare il file nel include_path.
<?php
// inserisce una pagina web in un array e la stampa. In questo esempio useremo il protocollo
// HTTP per ottenere il sorgente di un URL
$lines = file('http://www.example.com/');
// Ciclo attraverso l'array, si visualizzerà il sorgente come html ed i numeri di linea
foreach($lines as $line_num => $line) {
echo "Line #<b>{$line_num}</b> : " . htmlspecialchars($line) . "<br />\n";
}
// Un'altro esempio, inserisce la pagina web in una stringa. Vedere anche file_get_contents().
$html = implode('', file ('http://www.example.com/'));
?>
Suggerimento
È possibile utilizzare una URL come un nome di file con questa funzione se fopen wrappers è stata abilitata. Vedere fopen() per maggiori informazioni su come specificare i nomi di file. Vedere Supported Protocols and Wrappers per i link verso le informazioni sulle capacità dei vari wrapper, note sul loro uso, informazioni sulle variabili predefinite che forniscono.
Nota:
Ciascuna riga dell'array restituito conterrà il carattere di fine riga, occorre, pertanto, utilizzare rtrim() se si desidera rimuovere il carattere di fine riga.
Nota: Se si hanno problemi con il PHP che non riconosce i fine linea leggendo file creati o ospitati su un computer Macintosh, si può abilitare l'opzione auto_detect_line_endings della configurazione di runtime.
Nota:
A partire da PHP 4.3.0 si può utilizzare file_get_contents() per memorizzare il contenuto di un file in una stringa in formato binario.
Nota: Il supporto per il contesto è stato aggiunto in PHP 5.0.0. Per la descrizione del contesto, fare riferimento a Stream Funzioni.
Avviso
Quando si usa SSL, Microsoft IIS viola il protocollo chiudendo la connessione senza inviare un'indicazione close_notify. PHP indicherà questo con un "SSL: Fatal Protocol Error" al raggiungimento della fine dei dati. Per aggirare questo problema, occorre abbassare il livello error_reporting per non includere questi avvisi. PHP 4.3.7 e successivi sono in grado di identificare gli IIS bacati quando si apre lo stream utilizzando il wrapper https:// e disabilitano automaticamente l'avviso. Se si usa fsockopen() per creare un socket ssl://, occorre identificare e sopprimere l'avviso manualmente.
Vedere anche readfile(), fopen(), fsockopen(), popen(), file_get_contents() e include.
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User Contributed Notes
file - [14 notes]
twichi at web dot de ¶
1 year ago
d basin ¶
3 years ago
this may be obvious, but it took me a while to figure out what I was doing wrong. So I wanted to share. I have a file on my "c:\" drive. How do I file() it?
Don't forget the backslash is special and you have to "escape" the backslash i.e. "\\":
<?php
$lines = file("C:\\Documents and Settings\\myfile.txt");
foreach($lines as $line)
{
echo($line);
}
?>
hope this helps...
jon+spamcheck at phpsitesolutions dot com ¶
5 years ago
A user suggested using rtrim always, due to the line ending conflict with files that have an EOL that differs from the server EOL.
Using rtrim with it's default character replacement is a bad solution though, as it removes all whitespace in addition to the '\r' and '\n' characters.
A good solution using rtrim follows:
<?php
$line = rtrim($line, "\r\n") . PHP_EOL;
?>
This removes only EOL characters, and replaces with the server's EOL character, thus making preg_* work fine when matching the EOL ($)
Reversed: moc dot liamg at senroc dot werdna ¶
5 years ago
This note applies to PHP 5.1.6 under Windows (although may apply to other versions).
It appears that the 'FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES' flag doesn't remove newlines properly when reading Windows-style text files, i.e. files whose lines end in '\r\n'.
Solution: Always use 'rtrim()' in preference to 'FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES'.
info at carstanje dot com ¶
6 years ago
Using file() for reading large text files > 10 Mb gives problems, therefore you should use this instead. It is much slower but it works fine. $lines will return an array with all the lines.
<?php
$handle = @fopen('yourfile...', "r");
if ($handle) {
while (!feof($handle)) {
$lines[] = fgets($handle, 4096);
}
fclose($handle);
}
?>
richardtcunningham at gmail dot com ¶
6 years ago
justin at visunet dot ie's note of 20-Mar-2003 states
"Note: Now that file() is binary safe it is 'much' slower than it used to be. If you are planning to read large files it may be worth your while using fgets() instead of file()."
I tested fgets(), file_get_contents(), and file() on PHP 4.3.2 and PHP 5 and timed each to be under a second with over 200,000 lines. I do not know if he was testing extremely long lines or what, but I could not duplicate the difference that he mentioned.
justin at visunet dot ie ¶
10 years ago
Note: Now that file() is binary safe it is 'much' slower than it used to be. If you are planning to read large files it may be worth your while using fgets() instead of file() For example:
<?php
$fd = fopen ("log_file.txt", "r");
while (!feof ($fd))
{
$buffer = fgets($fd, 4096);
$lines[] = $buffer;
}
fclose ($fd);
?>
The resulting array is $lines.
I did a test on a 200,000 line file. It took seconds with fgets() compared to minutes with file().
andrea at brancatelli dot it ¶
11 years ago
file() has a strange behaviour when reading file with both \n and \r as line delimitator (DOS files), since it will return an array with every single line but with just a \n in the end. It seems like \r just disappears.
This is happening with PHP 4.0.4 for OS/2. Don't know about the Windows version.
php@don't_spam_me ¶
11 years ago
It appears that the file() function causes file access problems for perl cgi scripts accessing the same files. I am using Perl v5.6.0 in linux with PHP/4.0.4pl1. After running a php app using the file() function, any perl cgi trying to access the same file randomly dies returning an internal server error: premature end of script headers.
The simple fix is to use fopen(), fgets() and fclose() instead of file().
marios88 at gmail dot com ¶
3 years ago
Quick and easy way to reverse read a file without array_reverse
<?php
$myfile = 'test.txt';
$lines = file($myfile);
for($i=count($lines);$i>0;$i--){
echo $lines[$i];
}
?>
vbchris at gmail dot com ¶
5 years ago
If you're getting "failed to open stream: Permission denied" when trying to use either file() or fopen() to access files on another server. Check your host doesn't have any firewall restrictions in-place which prevent outbound connections. This is the case with my host Aplus.net
PenguinMan98 at usa dot net ¶
5 years ago
on file() and flock()
My supervisor came up with a brilliant plan to workaround the inability of the file() to work on a flock()'ed file.
We created a dummy file called lockfile.txt. We would flock() lockfile.txt. Once we had a lock on it, we used file() on the file we wanted to read, then altered the file and called fclose on both files.
John ¶
9 years ago
after many months of confusion and frustration, i have finally figured out something that i should have noticed the first time around.
you can't file("test.txt") when that same file has been flocked. i guess i didn't have a full understanding of what i was doing when i used flock(). all i had to do was move the flock() around, and all was well.
dir @ badblue com ¶
9 years ago
Jeff's array2file function is a good start; here are a couple of improvements (no possibility of handle leak when fwrite fails, additional capability of both string2file and array2file; presumably faster performance through use of implode).
<?php
function String2File($sIn, $sFileOut) {
$rc = false;
do {
if (!($f = fopen($sFileOut, "wa+"))) {
$rc = 1; break;
}
if (!fwrite($f, $sIn)) {
$rc = 2; break;
}
$rc = true;
} while (0);
if ($f) {
fclose($f);
}
return ($rc);
}
function Array2File($aIn, $sFileOut) {
return (String2File(implode("\n", $aIn), $sFileOut));
}
?>
If you're generating your string text using a GET or POST from a TEXTAREA (e.g., a mini-web-text-editor), remember that strip_slashes and str_replace of "/r/n" to "/n" may be necessary as well using these functions.
HTH --dir @ badblue com