Trouble with files, arrays & exploding

[kattz]

Hi,
I am a new member so I hope I am posting to the right forum.

I am having great difficulties with PHP and a csv file.

I am trying to read the file in one line at a time, then explode it because it is a comma delimited file. I then need to use the individual exploded bits to create a dynamic table. I also need to join two of the elements (currently separated by a comma)together.
I have been working on this for two whole day now and I am still not getting anywhere. I get the lines into an array but when they are printed, they display as one long line separated with commas. If I explode(",", $string string), when I display it just prints the first element of each line array on separate lines.

Can anyone PLEASE help me out?????

thanks in advance

[khaine]

This is actually a lot easier than you think it may be. First use
fgetcsv to read the file something like

<?php 
$fpr=fopen("test.csv","r"); 
while ($data = fgetcsv ($fpr, 1024, ",")) 
{ 
    for ( $loop=0; $loop<count($data), $loop++ )
    {
        echo $data[$loop]."-";
    }
    echo "<BR>\n";
} 
fclose ($fpr); 
?>

to join two fields just concatinate them together

<?php

$str1="hello";
$str2="mum";
$str3=$str1." ".$str2;
echo $str3;

?>

hope that helps

Mark.

[kattz]

THANKS SO VERY MUCH FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE 🙂

I was so close but my for loop was a not quite right and I was using fgets instead of fgetcsv!

Now that's worked out, I can begin working and formatting the data!!

thanks again!