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welancers on 08/22/12


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Generate CSV file from Array using PHP

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Very simple & short code snippet which is very useful at many places to generate CSV files.

Usage :

$data = array( array(1, 2, 4), array('test string', 'test, literal, comma', 'test literal "quotes"'), );

echo generateCsv($data);

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  1. function generateCsv($data, $delimiter = ',', $enclosure = '"') {
  2.        $handle = fopen('php://temp', 'r+');
  3.        foreach ($data as $line) {
  4.                fputcsv($handle, $line, $delimiter, $enclosure);
  5.        }
  6.        rewind($handle);
  7.        while (!feof($handle)) {
  8.                $contents .= fread($handle, 8192);
  9.        }
  10.        fclose($handle);
  11.        return $contents;
  12. }

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