Write CSV To File Without Enclosures In PHP

Question

Is there a native function or solid class/library for writing an array as a line in a CSV file without enclosures? fputcsv will default to \" if no

Answer 1

fputcsv($file, $data, ';', chr(127));

Answer 2

Figured it out. By passing in the ascii code for Null to the car() function it seems to work just fine.

fputcsv($f, $array, $delimiter, car(0))

Thanks for the answers everyone!!!

Answer 3

The downside with a CSV file with no enclosures means an errant comma in user input will munge the row. So you'll need to remove commas before writing a CSV row.

The tricky part with handling CSV is parsing enclosures, which makes the PHP & PEAR CSV functions valuable. Essentially you're looking for a file that is comma-delimited for columns and newline-delimited for rows. Here's a simple starting point:

<?php
$col_separator= ',';
$row_separator= "\n";

$a= array(
 array('my', 'values', 'are', 'awes,breakit,ome'),
 array('these', 'values', 'also', "rock\nAND\nROLL")
);

function encodeRow(array $a) {
 global $col_separator;
 global $row_separator;
 // Can't have the separators in the column data!
 $a2= array();
 foreach ($a as $v) {
  $a2[]= str_replace(array($col_separator, $row_separator), '', $v);
 }
 return implode($col_separator, $a2);
}

$output= array();
foreach ($a as $row) {
 $output[]= encodeRow($row);
}

echo(implode($row_separator, $output));

?>

Answer 4

The warnings about foregoing enclosures are valid, but you've said they don't apply to your use-case.

I'm wondering why you can't just use something like this?

<?php
$fields = array(
    "field 1","field 2","field3hasNoSpaces"
);
fputs(STDOUT, implode(',', $fields)."\n");

Answer 5

Doesn't this work?

fputcsv($fp, split(',', $line),',',' ');

Answer 6

works with chr() function:

fputcsv($f,$array,',',chr(0));