This project has been moved to Github:

https://github.com/parsecsv/parsecsv-for-php

parseCSV is an easy to use PHP class to read and write CSV data properly. It fully conforms to the specifications outlined on the on the Wikipedia article. It has a few advanced features which help make your life easier when dealing with CSV data.

I created this class due to the lack of built-in and third-party support for handling CSV data in PHP.

Please check the Examples page for basic sample code illustrating the use of parseCSV.

Features:

• parseCSV is the only complete and fully featured CSV solution for PHP (as far as i know).
• Supports enclosed values, enclosed commas, double quotes and new lines.
• Automatic delimiter character detection.
• Sort data by specific fields/columns.
• Easy data manipulation.
• Basic SQL-like conditions, offset and limit options for filtering data.
• Error detection for incorrectly formatted input. It attempts to be intelligent, but can not be trusted 100% due to the structure of CSV, and how different programs like Excel for example outputs CSV data.
• Support for character encoding conversion using PHP's iconv function (requires PHP 5).
• Supports both PHP 4 & 5.

Planned Features:

• Support negative offset values to offset from end of data rather than beginning.
• More advanced and mature conditions input. Currently it doesn't even support enclosing values in quotes.
• Some decent documentation, specifically regarding conditions syntax.

Credits:

• parseCSV is based on the concept of Ming Hong Ng's CsvFileParser class.

Contact:

If you have any problems, questions or suggestions please create a new issue, or feel free to drop me a mail: contact at jimeh dot me