I have a some 350-lined CSV File with all sorts of vendors that fall into Clothes, Tools, Entertainment, etc.. categories. Using
the following code I have been able to print out my CSV File.
<?php
$fp = fopen('promo_catalog_expanded.csv', 'r');
echo '<tr><td>';
echo implode('</td><td>', fgetcsv($fp, 4096, ','));
echo '</td></tr>';
while(!feof($fp)) {
list($cat, $var, $name, $var2, $web, $var3, $phone,$var4, $kw,$var5, $desc) = fgetcsv($fp, 4096);
echo '<tr><td>';
echo $cat. '</td><td>' . $name . '</td><td><a href="http://www.' . $web .'" target="_blank">' .$web.'</a></td><td>'.$phone.'</td><td>'.$kw.'</td><td>'.$desc.'</td>' ;
echo '</td></tr>';
}
fclose($file_handle);
show_source(__FILE__);
?>
First thing you will probably notice is
the extraneous vars
within the list(). this is because of how
the excel spreadsheet/csv file:
Category,,Company Name,,Website,,Phone,,Keywords,,Description
,,,,,,,,,,
Clothes,,4imprint,,4imprint.com,,877-466-7746,,"polos, jackets, coats, workwear, sweatshirts, hoodies, long sleeve, pullovers, t-shirts, tees, tshirts,",,An embroidery and apparel company based in Wisconsin.
,,Apollo Embroidery,,apolloemb.com,,1-800-982-2146,,"hats, caps, headwear, bags, totes, backpacks, blankets, embroidery",,An embroidery sales company based in California.
One thing to note is that
the last line starts with two commas as it is also listed
within "Clothes" category.
My concern is that I am going about
the CSV output wrong.
Should I be using a foreach loop instead of this list way?
Should I first get rid of any unnecessary blank columns?
Please advise any flaws you may find, improvements I can use so I can be ready to import this data to a MySQL DB.
