Loading CSV from remote file - php

Question

I am writing the following code from a CSV to get stock data, When I have downloaded the string it is splitting it in the following way
<COMPANY NAME>,<STOCK PRICE>,<STOCK CHANGE>
<COMPANY2 NAME>,<STOCK PRICE2>,<STOCK CHANGE2>
I have tried to split the array by using the /n character using the PHP function explode. However this did not split it properly. Here is my code:
public function getQuotes()
{
$result = array();
$format = $this->format;
$stockString = "";
foreach ($this->stocks as $stock)
{
$stockString = $stockString . $stock . "+";
}
//Remove the last "+"
$stockString = substr($stockString,0,strlen($stockString)-1);
$s = file_get_contents("http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=". $stockString . "&f=" . $format . "&e=.csv");
//The splitting is to be done here.
}
}
Thank you in advance

Answer 1

Use file function instead of file_get_contents - it will split the content for you, as php manual says:
Returns the file in an array. Each element of the array corresponds to
a line in the file, with the newline still attached. Upon failure,
file() returns FALSE.
Then you can use str_getcsv for each element of array to get field values.
public function getQuotes()
{
$result = array();
$format = $this->format;
$stockString = "";
foreach ($this->stocks as $stock)
{
$stockString = $stockString . $stock . "+";
}
//Remove the last "+"
$stockString = substr($stockString,0,strlen($stockString)-1);
$s = file("http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.csv?s=". $stockString . "&f=" . $format . "&e=.csv");
foreach($s as $line) {
$values = str_getcsv($line);
}
}