How to create an array from a CSV file using PHP?

Last updated on February 24, 2015

In this post i will show you how to read CSV file with PHP. CSV is a type of file. It means Comma Separated Values.

By using PHP’s fgetcsv() function we will work with CSV Files.this function parses a line from an open file, checking for CSV fields. and it will return the CSV fields in an array on success, or FALSE on failure.

Here is the Example :

function csvToArray($file){
    $rows = array();
    $cols = array();
    if(file_exists($file) && is_readable($file)){
        $handle = fopen($file, 'r');
        while (!feof($handle) ) {
            $row = fgetcsv($handle, 10240);
            if(empty($cols))
                $cols = $row;
            else if(is_array($row))
                $rows[] = array_combine($cols, $row);
        }
        fclose($handle);
    } else {
        throw new Exception($file.' doesn`t exist or is not readable.');
    }
    return $rows;
}

That’s it.