I am trying to convert CSV file to JSON using PHP.
Here is my code
<?php
date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
$today = date("n_j"); // Today is 1/23/2015 -> $today = 1_23
$file_name = $today.'.CSV'; // My file name is 1_23.csv
$file_path = 'C:\\Users\\bheng\\Desktop\\qb\\'.$file_name;
$file_handle = fopen($file_path, "r");
$result = array();
if ($file_handle !== FALSE) {
$column_headers = fgetcsv($file_handle);
foreach($column_headers as $header) {
$result[$header] = array();
}
while (($data = fgetcsv($file_handle)) !== FALSE) {
$i = 0;
foreach($result as &$column) {
$column[] = $data[$i++];
}
}
fclose($file_handle);
}
// print_r($result); // I see all data(s) except the header
$json = json_encode($result);
echo $json;
?>
print_r($result);// I see all data(s)
Then I json_encode($result); and tried to display it, but nothing is displaying on the screen at all. All I see is the blank screen, and 0 error message.
Am I doing anything wrong ? Can someone help me ?
Added Result of
print_r($result);
Array (
[Inventory] => Array (
[0] => bs-0468R(20ug)
[1] => bs-1338R(1ml)
[2] => bs-1557G(no bsa)
[3] => bs-3295R(no BSA)
[4] => bs-0730R-Cy5"
[5] => bs-3889R-PE-Cy7"
[6] => 11033R
[7] => 1554R-A647
[8] => 4667
[9] => ABIN731018
[10] => Anti-DBNL protein
.... more ....
Try like this:
$file="1_23.csv";
$csv= file_get_contents($file);
$array = array_map("str_getcsv", explode("
", $csv));
$json = json_encode($array);
print_r($json);
You can check to see if there was an error during JSON encoding using json_last_error(). Could you please try that first?
I ran into a similar problem, I ended up using this to recursively convert the data to UTF-8 on an array before encoding to JSON.
function utf8_converter($array)
{
array_walk_recursive($array, function(&$item, $key){
if(!mb_detect_encoding($item, 'utf-8', true)){
$item = utf8_encode($item);
}
});
return $array;
}
From: http://nazcalabs.com/blog/convert-php-array-to-utf8-recursively/
You can try this way too.
<?php
function csvtojson($file,$delimiter)
{
if (($handle = fopen($file, "r")) === false)
{
die("can't open the file.");
}
$csv_headers = fgetcsv($handle, 4000, $delimiter);
$csv_json = array();
while ($row = fgetcsv($handle, 4000, $delimiter))
{
$csv_json[] = array_combine($csv_headers, $row);
}
fclose($handle);
return json_encode($csv_json);
}
$jsonresult = csvtojson("./doc.csv", ",");
echo $jsonresult;
If you are converting a dynamic CSV file, you can pass the URL through a parameter (url=http://example.com/some.csv) and it will show you the most up-to-date version:
<?php
// Lets the browser and tools such as Postman know it's JSON
header( "Content-Type: application/json" );
// Get CSV source through the 'url' parameter
if ( isset( $_GET['url'] ) ) {
$csv = explode( "
", file_get_contents( $_GET['url'] ) );
$index = str_getcsv( array_shift( $csv ) );
$json = array_map(
function ( $e ) use ( $index ) {
return array_combine( $index, str_getcsv( $e ) );
}, $csv
);
}
else {
$json = "Please set the path to your CSV by using the '?url=' query string.";
}
// Output JSON
echo json_encode( $json );
data.csv
Game,Skill
Treasure Hunter,pilipala
Rocket Launcher,bibobibo
Rocket Engine,hehehohoho
To convert with column name, this is how I do it.
csv2json.php
<?php
if (($handle = fopen("data.csv", "r")) !== FALSE) {
$csvs = [];
while(! feof($handle)) {
$csvs[] = fgetcsv($handle);
}
$datas = [];
$column_names = [];
foreach ($csvs[0] as $single_csv) {
$column_names[] = $single_csv;
}
foreach ($csvs as $key => $csv) {
if ($key === 0) {
continue;
}
foreach ($column_names as $column_key => $column_name) {
$datas[$key-1][$column_name] = $csv[$column_key];
}
}
$json = json_encode($datas);
fclose($handle);
print_r($json);
}
The output result
[
{
"Game": "Treasure Hunter",
"Skill": "pilipala"
},
{
"Game": "Rocket Launcher",
"Skill": "bibobibo"
},
{
"Game": "Rocket Engine",
"Skill": "hehehohoho"
}
]
Alternate solution that uses similar method as @Whirlwind's solution but returns a more standard JSON result (with named fields for each object/record):
// takes a string of CSV data and returns a JSON representing an array of objects (one object per row)
function convert_csv_to_json($csv_data){
$flat_array = array_map("str_getcsv", explode("
", $csv_data));
// take the first array item to use for the final object's property labels
$columns = $flat_array[0];
for ($i=1; $i<count($flat_array)-1; $i++){
foreach ($columns as $column_index => $column){
$obj[$i]->$column = $flat_array[$i][$column_index];
}
}
$json = json_encode($obj);
return $json; // or just return $obj if that's a more useful return value
}
The accepted answer uses file_get_contents() to read the entire file as a string in memory, and then explode() it to make it an array.
But it can be made faster, smaller in memory, and more useful:
function ReadCsv($fn)
{
$lines= file($fn); // read file directly as an array of lines
array_pop($lines); // you can remove the last empty line (if required)
$json= json_encode(array_map("str_getcsv", $lines), JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK);
print_r($json);
}
Nb: I used JSON_NUMERIC_CHECK here to avoid numbers being double quoted into strings. It also reduces the output size and it usually helps javascript on the other side (e.g. to compute or plot the data). Beware of phone numbers though!
I liked @ian-d-miller's solution for converting the data into a key / value style format, but I kept running into issues with his code.
Here's what worked for me:
function convert_CSV_to_JSON($csv_data){
// convert csv data to an array
$data = array_map("str_getcsv", explode("
", $csv_data));
// use the first row as column headers
$columns = $data[0];
// create array to hold our converted data
$json = [];
// iterate through each row in the data
foreach ($data as $row_index => $row_data) {
// skip the first row, since it's the headers
if($row_index === 0) continue;
// make sure we establish each new row as an array
$json[$row_index] = [];
// iterate through each column in the row
foreach ($row_data as $column_index => $column_value) {
// get the key for each entry
$label = $columns[$column_index];
// add this column's value to this row's index / column's key
$json[$row_index][$label] = $column_value;
}
}
// bam
return $json;
}
Usage:
// as is
$json = convert_CSV_to_JSON($csv);
// encoded
$json = json_encode($json);