Coverting a csv-file to a PHP 2D-array

Question

I\'m new at PHP and keep struggling to read a CSV file into a 2D-array. I use the following file \'csv/team.csv\':

ID,Nickname,Shirtnumber,Position
1,Jimmy,0         


        

Answer 1

I think str_getcsv comment contains very laconic solution, although it can be improved by using array_walk $userdata parameter:

array_walk($teamdata, function(&$player, $_, $headers) {
    $player = array_combine($headers, $player);
}, array_shift($teamdata));

Here is the demo.

Answer 2

1. list just assigns array values to variables.

You probably want to extract the headings first and combine that with each row to get an associative array:

$teamdata = file("csv/team.csv", FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES);
//get and remove first line to use as keys
$headings = str_getcsv(array_shift($teamdata));

foreach ($teamdata as $playerline) {
        $player = str_getcsv($playerline);
        //combine keys with values
        $result[] = array_combine($headings, $player);
{ 

2. You call prev on the array, however the array pointer is already at the first element so there is no previous and it returns false. This is seen with: var_dump(prev($result));