How to extract data from csv file in PHP

Question

I have a csv file which looks like this

$lines[0] = \"text, with commas\", \"another text\", 123, \"text\",5;
$lines[1] = \"some without commas\", \"another          


        

Answer 1

you can read the data using the following function.

  function readCSV() {
    $csv = array_map('str_getcsv', file('data.csv'));
    array_shift($csv); //remove headers


}

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