Simple Example¶

The CSV library is built to take in rows of data as either associative arrays or as objects and either save the data as a file or return it as a string. Each row of data is added one at a time, but you can provide any combination of associaitve arrays and objects and they can have differing keys and property names:

$csv = ee('CSV');
$csv->addRow(array(
  'email' => 'team at ellislab dot com',
  'title' => 'EllisLab Team'
))->addRow(array(
  'email' => 'hello at ellislab dot com',
  'name' => 'Hello to EllisLab'
));
echo (string) $csv;

Would result in:

"email", "title", "name"
"team at ellislab dot com", "EllisLab Team", ""
"hello at ellislab dot com", "", "Hello to EllisLab"

Alternatively you could save the resulting data to a file:

$csv->save('/path/to/file.csv');

Methods¶

class EllisLab\ExpressionEngine\Library\Data\CSV¶

EllisLab\ExpressionEngine\Library\Data\CSV::addRow($rowData)¶

Add a row of data to the CSV instance:

$csv->addRow(array(
  'email' => 'team at ellislab dot com',
  'title' => 'EllisLab Team'
));

OR

$row = new \stdClass();
$row->email = 'team at ellislab dot com';
$row->name = 'EllisLab Team';
$result = $csv->addRow($row);

Parameters:	$rowData (array/object) – A single row of data passed in as an object or as an associaitve array
Returns:	$this, the CSV object itself so you can chain ->addRow() and ->save() calls.
Return type:	Object

EllisLab\ExpressionEngine\Library\Data\CSV::save($filename)¶

Save the csv data to a file:

$csv->save('/path/to/file.csv');

Parameters:	$filename (string) – The path to the file
Returns:	TRUE if the file was saved, FALSE if there was a failure
Return type:	Boolean

EllisLab\ExpressionEngine\Library\Data\CSV::__toString()¶

String representation of the csv data:

echo (string) $csv;

Returns:	String representation of the csv data
Return type:	String