This may have a short or long answer, I am interested in if there is a short answer.
I want to be able to take a csv file and move columns and data around as well as editing some cell data on the fly.
I know all this could be done parsing each line, cell by cell in loops, but is there any shortcuts to doing this?
Hello Johnny,
That should be straight forward - in fact it's always best to create CSV rows in controlled way; rather than creating a row automatically by implode()'ing the $record. For example...
<?phpfunction myRecordHandler($record)
{
global $csv;
// edit any values as required here, for example:
$record["TITLE"] = strtoupper($record["TITLE"]);
// output csv row
fwrite($csv,$record["TITLE"].",");
fwrite($csv,$record["DESCRIPTION"].",");
fwrite($csv,$record["CATEGORY"]."\n");
// remember last one ends with new line instead of separator character!
}
// open output csv file for writing
$csv = fopen("output.csv","w");
// create header row if required
fwrite($csv,"TITLE".",");
fwrite($csv,"DESCRIPTION".",");
fwrite($csv,"CATEGORY"."\n");
// parse input file to create output
MagicParser_parse("input.csv","myRecordHandler","csv|44|1|0");
// close output file
fclose($csv);
?>
Hope this helps!
Cheers,
David.