NRich\CSV

A simple universal package to easily generate or import CSV files.

Installation

Just run this on your terminal (project dir)

composer require nathanielrich/csv:@dev

that´s it.

Export

Basic usage (download)

$data = [
    [
        'price' => 15.99,
        'name' => 'My Product',
        'availableAt' => '2015-01-16'
    ]
];

$csvExport = new NRich\CSV\Export();
$csvExport->build($data)
    ->download();

And a proper CSV file will be downloaded with headers of $data index.

Basic usage (save as file)

$data = [
    [
        'price' => 15.99,
        'name' => 'My Product',
        'availableAt' => '2015-01-16'
    ]
];

$csvExport = new NRich\CSV\Export();
$csvExport->build($data)
    ->save('__PATH__TO__TARGET__FILE');

And a proper CSV file will be created at your path with headers of $data index.

Basic usage (get raw data)

$data = [
    [
        'price' => 15.99,
        'name' => 'My Product',
        'availableAt' => '2015-01-16'
    ]
];

$csvExport = new NRich\CSV\Export();
$csvExport->build($data)
    ->getRawData('__PATH__TO__TARGET__FILE');

Will return a string with csv-file-data.

Basic usage (symfony/laravel UploadedFile)

$data = [
    [
        'price' => 15.99,
        'name' => 'My Product',
        'availableAt' => '2015-01-16'
    ]
];

$csvExport = new NRich\CSV\Export();
$csvExport->build($data)
    ->getSymfonyUploadedFile('__PATH__TO__TARGET__FILE');

Will return the class UploadedFile of symfony´s http-foundation library.

Usage with non custom-indexed array

$data = [
    [
        15.99,
        'My Product',
        '2015-01-16'
    ]
];

$csvExport = new NRich\CSV\Export();
$csvExport->build($data, [
    'price', 'name', 'availableAt'
])
    ->download();

Windows/Excel defaults

At the current version of excel or other windows based software solutions. They expect an ; instead of the standard ,.

You can do customize it at the constructor:

$data = [
    [
        15.99,
        'My Product',
        '2015-01-16'
    ]
];

$csvExport = new NRich\CSV\Export(';');
...

Or you can choose the predefined windows option:

$data = [
    [
        15.99,
        'My Product',
        '2015-01-16'
    ]
];

$csvExport = new NRich\CSV\Export();
$csvExport->windows()
    ->build($data)
    ->download();
...

Import

Basic usage

$csvImport = new NRich\CSV\Import();
$data = $csvImport->execute('__PATH__TO__YOUR__FILE');

print_r($data);

will return an array of objects from your csv file. if you wanna have an nested array instead of object you can set the second param of execute() to true.