Hier is an example for a CSV Iterator.
<?php
class CsvIterator implements Iterator
{
const ROW_SIZE = 4096;
/**
* The pointer to the cvs file.
* @var resource
* @access private
*/
private $filePointer = null;
/**
* The current element, which will
* be returned on each iteration.
* @var array
* @access private
*/
private $currentElement = null;
/**
* The row counter.
* @var int
* @access private
*/
private $rowCounter = null;
/**
* The delimiter for the csv file.
* @var str
* @access private
*/
private $delimiter = null;
/**
* This is the constructor.It try to open the csv file.The method throws an exception
* on failure.
*
* @access public
* @param str $file The csv file.
* @param str $delimiter The delimiter.
*
* @throws Exception
*/
public function __construct($file, $delimiter=',')
{
try {
$this->filePointer = fopen($file, 'r');
$this->delimiter = $delimiter;
}
catch (Exception $e) {
throw new Exception('The file "'.$file.'" cannot be read.');
}
}
/**
* This method resets the file pointer.
*
* @access public
*/
public function rewind() {
$this->rowCounter = 0;
rewind($this->filePointer);
}
/**
* This method returns the current csv row as a 2 dimensional array
*
* @access public
* @return array The current csv row as a 2 dimensional array
*/
public function current() {
$this->currentElement = fgetcsv($this->filePointer, self::ROW_SIZE, $this->delimiter);
$this->rowCounter++;
return $this->currentElement;
}
/**
* This method returns the current row number.
*
* @access public
* @return int The current row number
*/
public function key() {
return $this->rowCounter;
}
/**
* This method checks if the end of file is reached.
*
* @access public
* @return boolean Returns true on EOF reached, false otherwise.
*/
public function next() {
return !feof($this->filePointer);
}
/**
* This method checks if the next row is a valid row.
*
* @access public
* @return boolean If the next row is a valid row.
*/
public function valid() {
if (!$this->next()) {
fclose($this->filePointer);
return false;
}
return true;
}
}
?>
Usage :
<?php
$csvIterator = new CsvIterator('/path/to/csvfile.csv');
foreach ($csvIterator as $row => $data) {
// do somthing with $data
}
?>