{"id":2178,"date":"2014-02-18T00:12:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T22:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nyamsprod.com\/blog\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2014-02-18T00:13:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T22:13:09","slug":"bakame-csv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyamsprod.com\/blog\/bakame-csv\/","title":{"rendered":"Handling CSV in PHP with Bakame.csv"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For many years I’ve been struggling with CSV files. Not because they are difficult to parse, PHP has been able to manipulate those files since the days of PHP4 but because finding a clean, simple yet powerful library to handle them was a pain. So after many years of re-inventing the wheel every time I was confronted with parsing a CSV I’ve decided to take a step back and start writing my own CSV manipulation library.
\nThis is how Bakame.csv<\/a> came to be.<\/p>\n

Now don’t get me wrong I looked on Github for similar libraries<\/a> but those that I’ve found were based on PHP4 stream functions or where not as documented or as straightforward as I wanted, some even had conflicted documentation or no documentation at all. So I started writing my own library in search of a well documented, powerful yet easy to of use library. If I had to point some of the goals achieve with this library I would say that:<\/p>\n