note 78058 modified in function.fgetcsv by danbrown

A much simpler way to map the heading/column names to the elements on each line. It also doesn't fill up one big array which could cause you to run out of memory on large datasets. This loads one at a time so you can process/insert to db/etc... <?php $handle = fopen('somefile.csv', 'r'); if ($handle) { set_time_limit(0); //the top line is the field names $fields = fgetcsv($handle, 4096, ','); //loop through one row at a time while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 4096, ',')) !== FALSE) { $data = array_combine($fields, $data); } fclose($handle); } ?> --was-- A much simpler way to map the heading/column names to the elements on each line. It also doesn't fill up one big array which could cause you to run out of memory on large datasets. This loads one at a time so you can process/insert to db/etc... $handle = fopen('somefile.csv', 'r'); if ($handle) { set_time_limit(0); //the top line is the field names $fields = fgetcsv($handle, 4096, ','); //loop through one row at a time while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 4096, ',')) !== FALSE) { $data = array_combine($fields, $data); } fclose($handle); } http://php.net/manual/en/function.fgetcsv.php