I have an application and I want to make the translation.
I want to externalise the translation and people who translate my application wants an Excel spreedsheet.
I have my messages in yaml format but I don't know how to extract them and make a csv or a spreedsheet.
The second step is that I want to extract the csv file to make a yaml file.
I have you got an idea?
Help please
I guess you are trying to convert the YAML files containing translations. This files are basically key values stored like this:
button.ok.value: Ok
button.ok.tooltip: Commits the action
Of course YAML can be more complicated, but if you have something like this, just replace the ':' char with ',' then save the file as CSV (or change the extension), open it using Excel. Then you can save it as xls format or whatever format you want.
If your file uses hierarchical nodes like:
button:
ok:
value: Ok
tooltip: Commits the action
Then you might want to write some script to iterate over the values (that's a tree traversal) and write the values to a file.
You should provide an example of how your YAML looks like since it's a very flexible format.
$csv = "out.csv";
$yaml = "in.yml";
fputcsv($csv, yaml_parse_file($yaml));
Requires http://pecl.php.net/package/yaml
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I am trying to generate a JSON string using php from an array, and I would like to store that string in a csv file, also with PHP. I want to do this, because I am working with a quite large amount of data, and I would like to use MySQL's LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE to populate and update my database table.
This is the code I have:
$tmpFileProducts = 'path/to/file';
$tmpFileProductsHandler= fopen($tmpFileProducts, 'w');
foreach ($attributeBatch as $productId => $batch) {
fputcsv($tmpFileProductsHandler, array($productId, $batch['title'], $batch['parsed'], json_encode($batch['attributes'])), "|", "\"");
}
My problem is, that when I am creating the CSV file, the JSON double-quotes are not escaped, thus I end up with simmilar lines in my csv file:
43541|"telefon mobil 3l 2020 4g "|"2020-12-05 17:38:19"|"{""color"":""dark chrome"",""memory_value"":4294967296,""storage_value"":68719476736,""sim_slot"":""dual""}"
My first possible solution would be, to change the string enclosure of my CSV file, but what enclosure should I use, to ensure no conflicts could arrise with the inner json column? I am in complete control of the array that is stringified, it will only contain ASCII characters, in it.
Would there be a way, to keep the current string enclosure, and instead escape the JSON string somehow? Later on, I will need to fetch the data that is included to the database, and convert it to an array again.
DISCLAIMER: I am well aware that instead of storing the data as a JSON string, I could store it in a specific relational table (which I am also doing), but I would need quick access to this data, for a background script that is running, and I would like to save on the time of the queries, to the relational table, as when the background script will use this data, it doesn't need to search in it.
Follow up question: as I am explicitly telling the fputcsv function what to use as string enclosure shouldn't it automatically escape all the simmilar inner strings?
I found this in a .csv file (maybe former excel sheet) and want to know what "language" this is:
a:6:{i:0;a:2:{s:3:"day";s:6:"Montag";s:7:"opening";s:11:"9:30 - 7:00";}
i:1;a:2:{s:3:"day";s:8:"Dienstag";s:7:"opening";s:11:"9:30 - 7:00";}
i:2;a:2:{s:3:"day";s:8:"Mittwoch";s:7:"opening";s:11:"9:30 - 7:00";}
i:3;a:2:{s:3:" ...
As i have to work with this data in a PHP context, i would like to read about the official syntax first, better than guessing how this is done ;)
This is not a "language". This is serialized data created with php function serialize(). You can deserialize() it.
I would like to read a HTML file as and convert the table content inside the html to csv format file using php.
In general, in a directory HTML, i have a list of html files say
KMC_Doctors_list_A.html
KMC_Doctors_list_B.html
KMC_Doctors_list_C.html
....
KMC_Doctors_list_Z.html
I would like to read these HTML file and the write its table content to a CSV file.
Can any one help me in this regard.
Get ready for some reading: fputcsv will write in the csv format. But you need to understand regular expressions preg_match and preg_match_all will be very useful in the process. There's no quick way to turn html into csv.
I am newer for php. I want make php page cache, query data from mysql and store data into json format.
I have many questions:
which type of file should I store? .json or .txt or .cache? for I also need use json decode return datas into page.
I want use cron tab, make many mysql queries and write into one json file. what write code should I choose? fopen, fwrite or file_get_contents or other command? (do not cover the data, but continue write. I will deleted the file and renewer it at the next cron time)
If a multi write into a json data (10 or more mysql query at the same time and write into a same json file, each json child format like {name: ".$row['name']."}), how to completed a top { and bottom } to make a standad json data format?
{ //how to add this one
{name: ".$row['name']."}
{name: ".$row['name']."}
// many name from 10 more mysql queries
} //and this one
Thanks.
It's json_encode()
json_encode() — Returns the JSON representation of a value
<?php
$arr = array ('a'=>1,'b'=>2,'c'=>3,'d'=>4,'e'=>5);
echo json_encode($arr);
?>
which type of file should I store
It doesn't matter. There is no fixed extension, but I would pick .json just to make it clear what the file is supposed to contain.
what write code should I choose?
Just use file_put_contents to put the JSON string (see next section) into a file.
each json child format like
You really do not want to use that method. It might work for a while, but becomes very complex when you need to handle things like quoting and special-character escapes. Instead of re-inventing the wheel, use PHP's built-in JSON functions for this.
Create the data-structure you want using PHP's strings, numbers, and arrays, and then rely on json_encode to turn it into a string.
The main thing to be careful of is that depending on how your php array() looks, you might get JSON [] versus {}.
As far as saving the file as .txt or .json won't make a difference.
I think the focal point of this all lies in the json_encode page. Here's the example from that page:
This code:
<?php
$arr = array ('a'=>1,'b'=>2,'c'=>3,'d'=>4,'e'=>5);
echo json_encode($arr);
?>
Outputs like this:
{"a":1,"b":2,"c":3,"d":4,"e":5}
3 . You can use fopen and fwrite to write to your file. The second argument to fopen is the mode, you want to use 'a' for append.
Don't write your own cache because anything you write in PHP will be slower than can be supported by native extensions (like APC or memcached or even MySQL itself!!).
Don't cache as JSON. JSON is not a particulary 'fast' to serialize. If you're doing caching you don't want to do any serialization at all. Just store it as it is.
MySQL does query caching for you. If performance is a problem first tune your MySQL queries and database schema. Caching is one of the absolute last optimization you want to do.
If you want an easy way to cache, make a MySQL table called 'cache' and use that. If you want quick (small) file access, use MySQL (seriously). If you want an even faster cache access use an in-memory cache like APC or memcached.
I am trying to make a news feed type thing in php.
I have a text file - news.txt and a php file index.php.
I have done the surrounding code and opening/closing the text file. Now I am stuck how to insert the new news item $newsnew to the top of the news.txt file and how to delete the old bottom news file in the news.txt file.
Is there any way to do this without deleting the whole file and writing it all again?
EDIT: Each news item is just a small string, say 500 characters, a single line.
Use a database.
If you really must use text files, use a different file for every news-item and name them sequentially like:
news001.txt
news002.txt
etc.
Then you can just add and delete files, read the directory and display what´s there.
Use the file() function to import the items in news.txt as an array, and use array_unshift() to add the new first item, and array_pop() to remove the last item. Join the array back into a single string and write it to news.txt:
$items = file('news.txt');
array_unshift($items, 'New item 1');
array_pop($items);
$newstext = implode(PHP_EOL, $items);
// write $newstext to the external file
If this is a XML file you could read it, parse it and delete the last child in the DOM. But if you have all your data in a DB it could be much easier to rewrite the file every time.
EDIT: after your edit: yes, you can do it like this:
write your new line to a new file
read the old file line by line and write it to the new one
skip the last line (detected by counting or EOF)
delete the old file and rename the new
No, there is not. But you might consider storing the messages in revers order. That way you only need to append to news.txt when new news arrive.
You are not going to be able to prepend to the beginning of the file without writing the whole thing out again. You could append to the end of it with the "a" mode flag to fopen(), but still to delete the oldest item you'll need to write out the entire file again.
Really, a database is solution here instead of a single text file.
There are many ways you can do it using the flat text file, but I'm not really sure it it's worth it. You can use some lightweight structured file or embedded database. For example SQLite, which would store it in normal file, no additional setup needed.