Answer by HenryHayes for Parsing A Data Feed
There is a ready-built PHP parsing library that can auto-detect the CSV format.Example:$reader = new Dfp_Datafeed_File_Reader();$reader->setLocation('test.csv');foreach ($reader AS $record) {...
View ArticleAnswer by Ryan Abbott for Parsing A Data Feed
You can use explode to get both:$myFile = "File.txt";$fh = fopen($myFile, 'r');$data = fread($fh);fclose($fh);$newLines = explode("\n",$data);foreach($newLines as $s){ $parsed = explode("|",$s);...
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If you are reading out of your textarea post, you can use the explode function using the newline character as your separator to get each "line" in the variable as a new element of an array, then you...
View ArticleAnswer by Paul Dixon for Parsing A Data Feed
If the file is small, you can use file() to read it into an array, one line per element.Failing that, read the file in loop using fgets()$handle = fopen("/tmp/inputfile.txt", "r");while...
View ArticleAnswer by Randy for Parsing A Data Feed
You can read a file into an array of lines and do all the splitting with:$lines = file("filename");foreach($lines as $line) { $parts = explode("|", $line); // do the database inserts here}If you...
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I'm not the best at PHP and would be extremely grateful if somebody could help. Basically I need to parse each line of a datafeed and just get each bit of information between each "|" - then I can add...
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