Inspiration from other libraries

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I want this library to be THE library that PHP developers use for CSV data. I want it to literally be laughable for somebody to use anything else. When you type in CSV PHP I want CSVelte to be at the top of the list. In order to get there though, I have no issue with standing on the shoulders of giants. After all, I wrote the original library (PHP CSV Utilities) as a quasi-port of python's CSV module. So... here is a list of other libraries that are doing cool things with CSV or are in some other way interesting or relevant:

• csvkit python csv library
• agate python library somehow related to csvkit
• csv2sql converts a csv file to a mysql create table query
• conformist very cool ruby library that allows you to define csv schemas programmatically so that you can validate/conform csv files to that schema
• exafox/schema Go tool set for inferring datatypes from CSV
• schema2csv Javascript library for CSV schema functionality
• csv_schema Ruby CSV schema library
• Omnidator Converts schema.org formats to other common formats
• csv-validate - Another python CSV schema/validator library
• csv-schema A PHP schema implementation!! And it even looks relatively well written/documented. Definitely worth a closer look.
• csv-schema A javascript library that analyzes a CSV file and imports it into a database. GUI I think.
• csv-schema - What looks to me, to be a mature, well thought out csv schema format/spec. If I were to go the "use an existing standard" route, this would probably be my choice.
• colibri-csv - This one actually has dialects

I found all this from a ten second github search. I haven't even tapped Google yet. There's definitely a lot of quality stuff out there to fish for good ideas.

One thing I definitely want to avoid though, with this library, is feature creep. It is intended to be a simple, easy to use, no nonsense CSV library. I have no idea including functionality that isn't conformant to that principle, I just want to include those types of features as modules, extensions, plugins, or whatever you want to call them.

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This library appears to be the (possible) de facto PHP CSV library as of now. Take a look at how they're doing things and see if you can do better... http://csv.thephpleague.com/

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These two libraries appear to also be pretty popular. Well, at least the first. I believe the second is the inspiration for the first.

• https://github.com/parsecsv/parsecsv-for-php
• http://minghong.blogspot.com/2006/07/csv-parser-for-php.html

From what I've seen of the CSV libraries written in PHP, my library is certainly going to be able to hold its own.