note 82905 added to function.fgetcsv

The array_flip() function is handy for converting column names to column numbers. Assuming the first row contains column names, you can simply read it via fgetcsv(); this will give you a number-indexed array of column names. Applying array_flip() converts that into a name-indexed array of column numbers. The following example does this, and assumes that two of the columns are named "animal" and "sound" but does not make any assumption about where those columns are. $fp = fopen($url, "r"); $names = array_flip(fgetcsv($fp, 1000)); while (($values = fgetcsv($fp, 1000)) !== FALSE) { print "The ".$values[$names["animal"]]." says ".$values[$names["sound"]].".\n"; } fclose($fp); ---- Server IP: 208.69.120.35 Probable Submitter: 63.105.22.161 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fgetcsv.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/82905 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82905/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82905/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82905/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82905/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82905/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82905/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/82905 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/82905 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php