php import csv into sql database - php

Question

whats wrong with this, when i echo out a row from the csv file and concat anything to the end of the row, it doesnt show up, instead all the rows are echo'ed and the concated string only shows up once at the very end, is this some kind of buffering thing that wont let me concat strings with stuff from my csv file, its running on my local wamp server, and i have tryed different line delimiter in my expload function, im sure the file only uses \n at the end of a line
im trying to parse a csv file row by row so i can check the content of it before i use it to construct an sql statement and insert it into my database.
$file = fopen($filename, "r")
$filesize = filesize($filename);
$filecontent = fread($file, $filesize);
fclose($file);
$rows = explode("\n", trim($filecontent));
foreach ($rows as $row)
{
echo $row . '<br />';
}

Answer 1

You are splitting the string by the string \n. Unless the actual string "\n" appears anywhere in the file, this will probably do nothing. You probably meant "\n" (double quotes), which makes this an actual line break.
Your overall process is terribly inefficient though. You should use fgetcsv and process the file line by line, instead of reading it into memory all at once.
$handle = fopen('test.csv', 'r');
while (($row = fgetcsv($handle)) !== false) {
foreach ($row as $field) {
echo $field . '<br />';
}
}
fclose($handle);

Answer 2

Use fgetcsv() function to convert a CSV file to an array:
$csvFile = "test.csv";
$csvSeparator = ",";
$csvFileLength = filesize($csvFile);
$handle = fopen($csvFile, "r");
$csvData = fgetcsv($handle, $csvFileLength, $csvSeparator);
fclose($handle);
Dump the data to show the structure:
var_dump($csvData);
Now you can convert the data to use in database.