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Ditto.php alpha release

Andrew Stilliard — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 14:55:31 GMT

Ditto.php composer package to quickly build a web proxy which replaces my old project under this name.

Usage example:

composer require stilliard/ditto.php dev-master

Much more information can be found on it's Github repo

Yet another CSV parsing php package, but what makes it different?

Andrew Stilliard — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 15:29:00 GMT

So I'm a little bored with that state of most CSV parsing tools.
I'm not saying there aren't some good lib's, but, either they seem to me to focus on specific uses or they are a maze of awesome classes to work with CSV's in every way under the sun.

I simply want a Parser for literally input and output, thats taking in an array, a string or a file, and outputting a string, an array or file(s), and a CSV object to work with the data and have some helpers for mapping over the data columns or rows, adding/removing/sorting rows, that sort of thing.
Hell, most the time I'll probably just want the Parser, as in take this CSV file, and give me an array, or the reverse, but its useful to have that CSV object there for when i need it.

Anyway, that's what I've built, its a composer package up on packagist and github:
https://github.com/stilliard/CsvParser

Install

composer require stilliard/csvparser dev-master

Example usage

$array = [['id'=>1, 'name'=>'Bob'],['id'=>2, 'name'=>'Bill']];
$parser = new \CsvParser\Parser();
$csv = $parser->fromArray($array);
var_dump($parser->toString($csv));

So the workflow here is just create a parser, feed in the input and that gives you a CSV object, then you can either do some with with that or pass back over the the parser for the output.

Rightmove BLM file reader / parser

Andrew Stilliard — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 15:08:00 GMT

Slightly late post but thought I'd mention a quick new composer package i recently pushed up.
A simple BLM reader for use with Rightmoves .BLM files.

View live on GitHub: https://github.com/stilliard/blmreader

Unlike the other lib's out there, this is pretty bare bones, it doesn't try to offer predefined values and other such helpers, it simple takes in a file and outputs an array. This is pretty handy not only for rightmove files, but for people using rightmove's format but not actually using the same fields, or for when fields get added in the future you wont have to do any work as this way it will automatically allow you access to them :)

Install

composer require stilliard/blmreader dev-master

Example usage

$blm = new \BLM\Reader(dirname(__FILE__) . '/test.blm');
var_dump($blm->toArray());