Importing CSV that has line breaks within the actual fields

Question

I am using PHP to import a CSV file, which originates from an excel spreadsheet. Some of the fields contain line breaks in them, so when I reopen the csv in excel / open office

Answer 1

Although it is old question the answer might be still relevant to ppl. There is currently new library (framework independent) http://csv.thephpleague.com/ which supports NL chars in fields as well as some filtering.