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.
• 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: jim at zydev dot info