How to modify output of certain function of File_CSV_DataSource? - php

Question

The following function is from a PEAR script called File_CSV_DataSource, and is a CSV parser.
CSV file is this:
name,age,skill
john,13,knows magic
tanaka,8,makes sushi
jose,5,dances salsa
The current output of this function is like this:
array (0 => array ('name' => 'john','age' => '13','skill' => 'knows magic',),1 =>array('name' => 'tanaka','age' => '8','skill' => 'makes sushi',),2 =>array ('name' => 'jose','age' => '5','skill' => 'dances salsa',),)
what I'm trying to achieve is to make the function to output like this:
array (array ('john','13','knows magic'), array('tanaka','8','makes sushi'), array ( 'jose','5','dances salsa'),)
so without the 0 => and without the column header => , only the value of the cells
Is there any way for me to modify the function bellow to make it output as in my example above?
public function connect($columns = array())
{
if (!$this->isSymmetric()) {
return array();
}
if (!is_array($columns)) {
return array();
}
if ($columns === array()) {
$columns = $this->headers;
}
$ret_arr = array();
foreach ($this->rows as $record) {
$item_array = array();
foreach ($record as $column => $value) {
$header = $this->headers[$column];
if (in_array($header, $columns)) {
$item_array[$header] = $value;
}
}
// do not append empty results
if ($item_array !== array()) {
array_push($ret_arr, $item_array);
}
}
return $ret_arr;
}
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Just use the built in filegetcsv. It will do that for you.