PHP Read CSV and filter by date

Question

I have the following CSV

Date,Event,Description
24/01/2010,Football,Football practice for all Years.
24/01/2010,Cricket,Cricket Practice for all Years.
25/01/201         


        

Answer 1

You can spend lot of time trying to traverse each line in csv file, or can try something like that:

$command = sprintf("grep '%s' -Er %s", date('d/m/Y'), $this->db);
$result = `$command`;

This example really works and it is really fast!