on the bleeding edge, not sure I belong there...stream_get_line()

[Matthew Crouch]

I have urgent need of the function stream_get_line :

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.stream-get-line.php

which as you can see is only P5 and above. So I went and got the PHP5
source, hoping to find this function and copy it into my script.

found php_streams.h
don't really know what to do with it...I'm learning a little bit of C but
not enough, I suspect.

Is this a fool's hope? Is there an existing (4.3) function that can be
tweaked to do the same job?

If you're still with me, here's why I need it:

I use .csv files in an import script, and one of the fields in these files
has a lot of new line characters. In fact, the "field" is really an entire
page of html. The .csv looks kinda like this:

"spykids.jpg";" na.jpg";"noQval ue";"0.45";"S py Kids";"<big><b> This is a
previously-viewed DVD in the original case. Both the DVD and case are in
excellent condition and come with a life-time guarantee. </big></b><br><br>

<b>The Original One!</B><br>
(2002) Color - 88 Minutes
<br><BR>

....and so on

So the usual fgetcsv() doesn't work -- it interprets each new-line as a new
record (even though it's enclosed within double quotes). My thought is that
using stream_get_line with the double-quote defined as the ending would be
the way to override this behavior.

[Jon Kraft]

Re: on the bleeding edge, not sure I belong there...stream_ get_line()

"Matthew Crouch" <matthew.crouch @spamlessverizo n.net> wrote:
[color=blue]
> "spykids.jpg";" na.jpg";"noQval ue";"0.45";"S py Kids";"<big><b> This is a
> previously-viewed DVD in the original case. Both the DVD and case are
> in excellent condition and come with a life-time guarantee.
> </big></b><br><br>
>
> <b>The Original One!</B><br>
> (2002) Color - 88 Minutes
> <br><BR>
>
> ...and so on
>
> So the usual fgetcsv() doesn't work -- it interprets each new-line as
> a new record (even though it's enclosed within double quotes).[/color]

It works fine on my system (PHP 4.3.2 on Linux):
fgetcsv($FP, 2048, ";", "\"");

JOn

[Matthew Crouch]

Re: on the bleeding edge, not sure I belong there...stream_ get_line()


"Jon Kraft" <jon@jonux.co.u k> wrote in message
news:Xns9468B6E A86C9Ejonjonuxc ouk@130.133.1.4 ...[color=blue]
> "Matthew Crouch" <matthew.crouch @spamlessverizo n.net> wrote:
>[color=green]
> > "spykids.jpg";" na.jpg";"noQval ue";"0.45";"S py Kids";"<big><b> This is a
> > previously-viewed DVD in the original case. Both the DVD and case are
> > in excellent condition and come with a life-time guarantee.
> > </big></b><br><br>
> >
> > <b>The Original One!</B><br>
> > (2002) Color - 88 Minutes
> > <br><BR>
> >
> > ...and so on
> >
> > So the usual fgetcsv() doesn't work -- it interprets each new-line as
> > a new record (even though it's enclosed within double quotes).[/color]
>
> It works fine on my system (PHP 4.3.2 on Linux):
> fgetcsv($FP, 2048, ";", "\"");
>
> JOn[/color]

Very true, thank you. I wasn't using the optional delimiters. Time for
another pot of coffee, I guess.