CSV Library

Simple Example
Methods

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

addRow($rowData)
save($filename)
__toString()

`addRow($rowData)`

Add a row of data to the CSV instance.

Parameter	Type	Description
$rowData	`Array/object`	A single row of data passed in as an object or as an associaitve array
Returns	`Object`	`$this`, the CSV object itself so you can chain `->addRow()` and

$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);

`save($filename)`

Save the csv data to a file.

Parameter	Type	Description
$filename	`String`	The path to the file
Returns	`Boolean`	`TRUE` if the file was saved, `FALSE` if there was a failure

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

`__toString()`

String representation of the csv data.

Parameter	Type	Description
Returns	`String`	String representation of the csv data

echo (string) $csv;