How to Handle CSV with PHP: Read Write, Import Export with Database

[Kama-144]

Proposed title of the article

How to Handle CSV with PHP: Read Write, Import Export with Database

Introduction paragraph (2-3 paragraphs):

CSV is one of the familiar file formats and is used widely by programmers for handling data. The simplicity of the format and human-readable form made it so popular. CSV stands for Comma-Separated Values. In earlier days, the delimiter was only a comma (,) and so the name CSV. Nowadays, CSV files use tab-demitted row data too.

To handle CSV with PHP, we must be aware there is excellent support in-built with core PHP. Knowledge about those built-in libraries and functions will be handy in handling CSV files. This article will gracefully handle CSV with PHP

Key takeaways:

1. CSV file format and MIME type
2. How to convert PHP Array to CSV?
3. CSV file data validation
4. How to import large CSV files?
5. How to split large CSV files and process using PHP?
6. How to read encoded CSV files with special characters?
7. Convert CSV file to HTML table using PHP
8. Process CSV file with comma data values using PHP
9. Export database records to CSV in a generic way
10. How to export CSV using fputcsv?
11. Download as CSV File via browser using Content-Type
12. Read CSV using PHP built-in functions

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[WanjaMIKE]

Good afternoon and thank you for submitting your topic suggestion. @Kama-144 Your topic form has been entered into our queue and should be reviewed (for approval) as soon as a content moderator is finished reviewing the ones in the queue before it.

[hectorkambow]

@Kama-144 How will this article differ from what is published our other blog sites

[Kama-144]

Before suggesting this issue I went through some of the published content in the Internet and I found out that most of them are not begginers friendly in that for those who are only familiar with procedural php are disadvantaged since most them employ PDO.My article will be able to address not only PDO and Procedural PHP but also oop php for the benefit of everyone😊

[hectorkambow]

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[mercymeave]

Hello @kama-144,

Another student suggested the same topic here, have you checked to confirm that there is no overlap?

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