CSV

League\Csv is a simple library to ease CSV parsing, writing and filtering in PHP. The goal of the library is to be powerful while remaining lightweight, by utilizing PHP native classes whenever possible.

League\Csv was designed for developers who want to deal with CSV data using modern code and without the high levels of bootstrap and low-levels of usefulness provided by existing core functions or third party-code.

This package is compliant with PSR-2 and PSR-4.

System Requirements

You need PHP >= 5.4.0 or HHVM >= 3.2 and the mbstring extension to use League\Csv but the latest stable version of PHP/HHVM is recommended.

Install

Install League\Csv using Composer.

composer require league/csv

This will edit (or create) your composer.json file and automatically choose the most recent version, for example: ~6.0

Going Solo

You can also use League\Csv without using Composer by downloading the library and using a PSR-4 compatible autoloader.

Documentation

League\Csv is fully documented. Contribute to this documentation in the gh-pages branch

Tips

• When creating or editing a document using League\Csv\Writer, first insert all the data that needs to be inserted before anything else. If you manipulate your data before insertion, you may change the file cursor position and get unexpected results.

• Even though you can iterate over you document using League\Csv\Writer class, it is recommend and best practice to iterate over you CSV using the League\Csv\Reader class to avoid any issue.

• The library assumes that your data is UTF-8 encoded. If your are dealing with non-unicode data you must enable your data conversion into UTF-8 otherwise output methods will fail. You can transcode your CSV :

  • using the library stream filtering methods;
  • or by setting the source encoding charset;

Testing

$ phpunit

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Credits

• ignace nyamagana butera
• All Contributors