Allows you to iterate through a file and read each line by line and parse each row into an array regardless of file type.
It will use the file extension to determine the file type. Using the files mime type to determine its type is unreliable across all systems.
- CSV - Comma Separated Value
- PSV - Pipe (|) Separated Value
- XLS - Excel document
- XLSX - Excel 2007 document
cd /usr/share/php
sudo git clone git://github.com/IamSmith/PHPReader.git
Additional options which will change the behaviour of the functionality.
PhpReader::OPTION_IGNORE_HEADER_ROW
if passed as an option will assume the first row of the file is data as well.
In order to handle the Excel file types PHP Reader will use the PHPExcel pear package.
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