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I have just wrapped up version 0.2 of our csv library. It includes several new features. The most exciting of which is the new Csv_Sniffer class.

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PHP Csv Utilities Documentation (PhpDocumentor)

Since I began doing web development five years ago, I have been exclusively a PHP developer. Recently though, I have taken quite a liking to python. In fact many times while I’m writing PHP I find myself thinking, “It sure would be nice if I could do this the python way”. It’s not that I don’t love PHP, it’s just that python is such an absolute joy to work with. Many features of PHP feel sort of tacked-on as an afterthought. For instance, many standard features available for object-oriented languages are rudimentary or missing completely. Although to PHP’s credit, PHP5 and the new Zend engine 2 have improved the situation considerably.

Several of the recent projects I’ve been working on have required an “import from / export to CSV” feature. PHP comes with a few functions for reading and writing csv files right out of the box: fgetcsv and fputcsv. While these are good functions and they get the job done I find they just aren’t enough in many cases. It would be nice if PHP had an interface like python’s csv module. Enter PHP CSV Utilities. The library is still in its infancy and nothing about the interface is concrete yet, but here are some of the things that are already possible with the library:

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