How to create csv file using raw text data - php

Question

i am much confused at this point regarding the csv file creation and insert data in the database.
suppose i have below text data - that is of 45000 record set, i am posting dew of them below.
Winged Wheels in France, by Michael Myers Shoemaker 45790
A Battle Fought on Snow Shoes, by Mary Cochrane Rogers 45789
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 45788
Volume 11, by Friedrich Spielhagen, Theodor Storm,
Wilhelm Raabe, Marion D. Learned and Ewald Eiserhardt
[Subtitle: Masterpieces of German Literature
Translated Into English]
Zofloya ou le Maure, Tomes 1-4, by Charlotte Dacre 45787
[Subtitle: Histoire du XVe si?cle]
[Language: French]
Their Majesties as I Knew Them, by Xavier Paoli 45786
[Subtitle: Personal Reminiscences of the
Kings and Queens of Europe]
[Translator: Alexander Teixeira de Mattos]
New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol. 8, 45785
Pt. 2, No. 1, July 1918, by Various
Gallery of Comicalities, by Robert Cruikshank, 45784
George Cruikshank and Robert Seymour
[Subtitle: Embracing Humorous Sketches]
Katri, by Emil Nervander 45783
[Subtitle: Kertomus 17 vuosi-sadasta]
[Language: Finnish]
The Little Brown Jug at Kildare, by Meredith Nicholson 45782
[Illustrator: James Montgomery Flagg]
Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (6 through 10), by Francis Beaumont 45781
and John Fletcher
[Subtitle: The Queen of Corinth; Bonduca; The Knight of the
Burning Pestle; Loves Pilgrimage; The Double Marriage]
Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (1 through 5), by Francis Beaumont 45780
and John Fletcher
[Subtitle: A Wife for a Month; The Lovers Progress;
The Pilgrim; The Captain; The Prophetess]
The Washington Historical Quarterly, Volume V, 1914, by Various 45779
[Editor: Edmond S. Meany]
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Volume III of 3, by Walter Scott 45778
[Subtitle: Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads,
Collected In the Southern Counties of Scotland; With
a Few Of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition.
In Three Volumes. Vol. III]
What i want is simply insert Winged Wheels in France, by Michael Myers Shoemaker in one column and 45790 in other column of CSV. then i will be able to add them to my database.
moreover, e.g,
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,
Volume 11, by Friedrich Spielhagen, Theodor Storm,
Wilhelm Raabe, Marion D. Learned and Ewald Eiserhardt
[Subtitle: Masterpieces of German Literature
Translated Into English]
i want to insert above text in this way:
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,
Volume 11, by Friedrich Spielhagen, Theodor Storm,
Wilhelm Raabe, Marion D. Learned and Ewald Eiserhardt
means no this portion:
[Subtitle: Masterpieces of German Literature
Translated Into English]
the ", by" should also omitted and so my new data would be like this. so actually i need three columns in the csv.
1 | Winged Wheels in France | Michael Myers Shoemaker | 45790
2 | The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,
Volume 11 | Friedrich Spielhagen, Theodor Storm,
Wilhelm Raabe, Marion D. Learned and Ewald Eiserhardt | 45789
Please help in getting it inserted in excel file and create csv from it.
thank you all.

Answer 1

do like this
(not tested)
$f = file_get_contents('yourtextfile.txt');
$f = preg_replace('/\[(.*?)\]/s','',$f);
$f = str_replace(array("\n", "\r"), '', $f);
file_put_contents('temp.txt',$f);
$file = file('temp.txt');
foreach($file as $key => $line){
if($line!=null || $line!='')
{
mysqli_query($connection,"insert into table1(column1) values('$line')");
}
}
edit
$f = file_get_contents('tt.txt');
$f = preg_replace('/\[(.*?)\]/s','',$f);
$keywords = preg_split("/[ ]{15}/", $f);
print_r(array_filter($keywords));
i'm still not clear,whether you have those numbers in your file or you have just mentioned it there!!