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A real alternative to fcsv_put
<?php
if (!function_exists('fputcsv')){
function fputcsv($objFile,$arrData,$strDelimiter=',',$strEnclose='"') {
$strNewLine="\n";
$strToWrite = '';
foreach ($arrData as $strCell){
//Test if numeric
if (!is_numeric($strCell)){
//Escape the enclose
$strCell = str_replace($strEnclose,$strEnclose.$strEnclose,$strCell);
//Not numeric enclose
$strCell = $strEnclose . $strCell . $strEnclose;
}
if ($strToWrite==''){
$strToWrite = $strCell;
} else {
$strToWrite.= $strDelimiter . $strCell;
}
}
$strToWrite.=$strNewLine;
fwrite($objFile,$strToWrite);
}
}
?>
fputcsv
(PHP 5 >= 5.1.0)
fputcsv — Format line as CSV and write to file pointer
Description
int fputcsv ( resource $handle [, array $fields [, string $delimiter [, string $enclosure]]] )fputcsv() formats a line (passed as a fields array) as CSV and write it to the specified file handle. Returns the length of the written string, or FALSE on failure.
The optional delimiter parameter sets the field delimiter (one character only). Defaults as a comma: ,.
The optional enclosure parameter sets the field enclosure (one character only) and defaults to a double quotation mark: ".
Example 630. fputcsv() example
<?php
$list = array (
'aaa,bbb,ccc,dddd',
'123,456,789',
'"aaa","bbb"'
);
$fp = fopen('file.csv', 'w');
foreach ($list as $line) {
fputcsv($fp, split(',', $line));
}
fclose($fp);
?>
Note: If you are having problems with PHP not recognizing the line endings when reading files either on or created by a Macintosh computer, you might want to enable the auto_detect_line_endings run-time configuration option.
See also fgetcsv().
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User Contributed Notesfputcsv
rauxbenoit at free dot fr
09-May-2007 03:15
09-May-2007 03:15
bl at mindbench dot nl
26-Mar-2007 08:55
26-Mar-2007 08:55
If you need to save the output to a variable (e.g. for use within a framework) you can write to a temporary memory-wrapper and retrieve it's contents:
<?php
// output up to 5MB is kept in memory, if it becomes bigger it will automatically be written to a temporary file
$csv = fopen('php://temp/maxmemory:'. (5*1024*1024), 'r+');
fputcsv($csv, array('blah','blah'));
rewind($csv);
// put it all in a variable
$output = stream_get_contents($csv);
?>
MagicalTux at ooKoo dot org
18-Jan-2007 02:08
18-Jan-2007 02:08
If you need to send a CSV file directly to the browser, without writing in an external file, you can open the output and use fputcsv on it..
<?php
$out = fopen('php://output', 'w');
fputcsv($out, array('this','is some', 'csv "stuff", you know.'));
fclose($out);
?>
03-Aug-2006 12:09
It's unrealistic to require the field enclosure to be one character because it's very common to have "empty string" as the field delimiter (especially when TAB is used as field delimiter).
I tried to use "\0" as the field enclosure, hoping that'd be interpreted as an empty string, but fputcsv (in PHP5) translated it into literal.
By the way, fputcsv wrongly adds the field enclosures whenever a field contains a space. The expected behavior should be adding the field enclosures when a field contains a field delimiter.
heather at heathercash dot com
25-Sep-2005 11:18
25-Sep-2005 11:18
Here is an adaptation to boonerunner's function for fputcsv.
It uses a 2-dimensional array.
Each sub-array is a line in the csv file which then ends up being seperated by commas.
function fputcsv($filePointer,$dataArray,$delimiter=",",$enclosure="\""){
// Write a line to a file
// $filePointer = the file resource to write to
// $dataArray = the data to write out
// $delimeter = the field separator
// Build the string
$string = "";
// for each array element, which represents a line in the csv file...
foreach($dataArray as $line){
// No leading delimiter
$writeDelimiter = FALSE;
foreach($line as $dataElement){
// Replaces a double quote with two double quotes
$dataElement=str_replace("\"", "\"\"", $dataElement);
// Adds a delimiter before each field (except the first)
if($writeDelimiter) $string .= $delimiter;
// Encloses each field with $enclosure and adds it to the string
$string .= $enclosure . $dataElement . $enclosure;
// Delimiters are used every time except the first.
$writeDelimiter = TRUE;
}
// Append new line
$string .= "\n";
} // end foreach($dataArray as $line)
// Write the string to the file
fwrite($filePointer,$string);
}
boonerunner at hotmail dot com
16-Sep-2005 02:47
16-Sep-2005 02:47
Here is an adaption of the above code that adds support for double quotes inside a field. (One double quote is replaced with a pair of double quotes per the CSV format).
<?php
function fputcsv($filePointer,$dataArray,$delimiter,$enclosure)
{
// Write a line to a file
// $filePointer = the file resource to write to
// $dataArray = the data to write out
// $delimeter = the field separator
// Build the string
$string = "";
// No leading delimiter
$writeDelimiter = FALSE;
foreach($dataArray as $dataElement)
{
// Replaces a double quote with two double quotes
$dataElement=str_replace("\"", "\"\"", $dataElement);
// Adds a delimiter before each field (except the first)
if($writeDelimiter) $string .= $delimiter;
// Encloses each field with $enclosure and adds it to the string
$string .= $enclosure . $dataElement . $enclosure;
// Delimiters are used every time except the first.
$writeDelimiter = TRUE;
} // end foreach($dataArray as $dataElement)
// Append new line
$string .= "\n";
// Write the string to the file
fwrite($filePointer,$string);
}
?>
twebb at boisecenter dot com
21-Jan-2005 01:54
21-Jan-2005 01:54
What about cells that span multiple lines? This function allows for cells to contain newlines:
function fputcsv($handle, $row, $fd=',', $quot='"')
{
$str='';
foreach ($row as $cell)
{
$cell = str_replace($quot, $quot.$quot, $cell);
if (strchr($cell, $fd) !== FALSE || strchr($cell, $quot) !== FALSE || strchr($cell, "\n") !== FALSE)
{
$str .= $quot.$cell.$quot.$fd;
}
else
{
$str .= $cell.$fd;
}
}
fputs($handle, substr($str, 0, -1)."\n");
return strlen($str);
}
I found this reference on the web:
http://www.creativyst.com/Doc/Articles/CSV/CSV01.htm
drew at zitnay dot com
22-Nov-2004 05:42
22-Nov-2004 05:42
I found the following problems with the below function:
- when calling str_replace(), you must assign $cell the return value or nothing gets saved
- when using strchr(), you should explicitly check !== FALSE, or it'll treat a return value of 0 (found the character at string position 0) as FALSE
- Excel seems to quote not only fields containing commas, but fields containing quotes as well, so I've added another strchr() for quotes; I'm not saying Microsoft knows the correct way for sure, but it seems reasonable to me
- the original function put a space after each comma; that might be legal, I don't know, but I've never seen it (and I don't think it is, because then how would you indicate you wanted a field to start with a space other than by quoting it?)
- the original function didn't correctly return the length of the data outputted
Here's the function, fixed up a bit:
function fputcsv($handle, $row, $fd=',', $quot='"')
{
$str='';
foreach ($row as $cell) {
$cell=str_replace(Array($quot, "\n"),
Array($quot.$quot, ''),
$cell);
if (strchr($cell, $fd)!==FALSE || strchr($cell, $quot)!==FALSE) {
$str.=$quot.$cell.$quot.$fd;
} else {
$str.=$cell.$fd;
}
}
fputs($handle, substr($str, 0, -1)."\n");
return strlen($str);
}
Drew
arthur.at.korn.ch
19-Nov-2004 05:56
19-Nov-2004 05:56
The function in the prior comment doesn't escape quotes in fields, here mine:
function fputcsv($handle, $row, $fd=',', $quot='"')
{
$str='';
foreach ($row as $cell) {
str_replace(Array($quot, "\n"),
Array($quot.$quot, ''),
$cell);
if (strchr($cell, $fd)) {
$str.=$quot.$cell.$quot.$fd.' ';
} else {
$str.=$cell.$fd.' ';
}
}
fputs($handle, substr($str, 0, -2)."\n");
return $str-1;
}
arthur at mclean dot ws
11-Nov-2004 10:10
11-Nov-2004 10:10
Here's a simplistic fputcsv function that you can use until the real one gets out of CVS:
function fputcsv($filePointer, $dataArray, $delimiter, $enclosure){
// Write a line to a file
// $filePointer = the file resource to write to
// $dataArray = the data to write out
// $delimeter = the field separator
// Build the string
$string = "";
$writeDelimiter = FALSE;
foreach($dataArray as $dataElement){
if($writeDelimiter) $string .= $delimiter;
$string .= $enclosure . $dataElement . $enclosure;
$writeDelimiter = TRUE;
} // end foreach($dataArray as $dataElement)
// Append new line
$string .= "\n";
// Write the string to the file
fwrite($filePointer, $string);
} // end function fputcsv($filePointer, $dataArray, $delimiter)