gistfile1.php

<?php

/**
* CSV Class
*/
class CSV
{

        public static function factory($path = NULL)
        {
                return new self($path);
        }

        public function __construct($path)
        {
                $this>from_file($path);
        }

	public function from_file($path = '')
	{
		$csv = array();
		if (($handle = fopen($path, "r")) !== FALSE)
		{
			while ($line = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) $csv[] = $line;
			fclose($handle);
		}
		else
		{
			echo "Could not open csv file at $path";
		}
		return $csv;
	}

	/**
	 * Takes an array and returns an associative array with the first line
	 * acting as the keys for all other line's fields.
	 *
	 * @param array $arr the array to convert 
	 * @return the new associative array
	 * @author Ryan Florence
	 */

	public static function to_assoc($arr = array())
	{
		$data = array();
		$header = array_shift($arr);
		foreach ($arr as $line)
		{
			$assoc_line = array();
			foreach($line as $i => $field)
			{
				$assoc_line[$header[$i]] = $field;
			}
			$data[] = $assoc_line;
		}
		return $data;
	}
	
	// from comments in http://php.net/manual/en/function.fputcsv.php, looks good enough
	public static function sputcsv($row, $delimiter = ',', $enclosure = '"', $eol = "\n")
	{
	    static $fp = false;
	    if ($fp === false)
	    {
	        $fp = fopen('php://temp', 'r+'); // see http://php.net/manual/en/wrappers.php.php - yes there are 2 '.php's on the end.
	        // NB: anything you read/write to/from 'php://temp' is specific to this filehandle
	    }
	    else
	    {
	        rewind($fp);
	    }

	    if (fputcsv($fp, $row, $delimiter, $enclosure) === false)
	    {
	        return false;
	    }

	    rewind($fp);
	    $csv = fgets($fp);

	    if ($eol != PHP_EOL)
	    {
	        $csv = substr($csv, 0, (0 - strlen(PHP_EOL))) . $eol;
	    }

	    return $csv;
	}

}