How to extract data from csv file in PHP

Question

I have a csv file which looks like this

$lines[0] = \"text, with commas\", \"another text\", 123, \"text\",5;
$lines[1] = \"some without commas\", \"another          


        

Answer 1

When you want to keep the index (first line) for multidimensional result array, you can use:

$delim      = ';';
$csvFile    = file($csv_file);
$firstline  = str_getcsv($csvFile[0], $delim);
$data       = array();
foreach ($csvFile as $line) {
    $line   = str_getcsv($line, $delim);
    $data[] = array_combine($firstline, $line);
}