Remove Line From CSV File

Norbert picture Norbert · Nov 1, 2010 · Viewed 27.6k times · Source

I have .csv file with 4 columns. What's the easiest way to remove a line identical with the id of the first column? Here's where I got stuck:

if($_GET['id']) {
    $id = $_GET['id'];
    $file_handle = fopen("testimonials.csv", "rw");

    while (!feof($file_handle) ) {
        $line_of_text = fgetcsv($file_handle, 1024);    
        if ($id == $line_of_text[0]) {
            // remove row
        }
    }
    fclose($file_handle);
}

Unfortunately, databases were not a choice.

Answer

Boris picture Boris · Apr 19, 2013
$table = fopen('table.csv','r');
$temp_table = fopen('table_temp.csv','w');

$id = 'something' // the name of the column you're looking for

while (($data = fgetcsv($table, 1000)) !== FALSE){
    if(reset($data) == $id){ // this is if you need the first column in a row
        continue;
    }
    fputcsv($temp_table,$data);
}
fclose($table);
fclose($temp_table);
rename('table_temp.csv','table.csv');