fgetcsv() | Use PHP to Read a CSV File:

The following is copied from an example use of fgetcsv(), originally published at http://php.net/fgetcsv

fgetcsv() :: Example 617.

Read and print the entire contents of a CSV file
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<?php
$row = 1;
$handle = fopen("test.csv", "r");
while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE) {
$num = count($data);
echo "<p> $num fields in line $row: <br /></p>\n";
$row++;
 for ($c=0; $c < $num; $c++) {
  echo $data[$c] . "<br />\n";
 }
}
fclose($handle);
?>

str_replace() | ucwords()

The following code snippet, using str_replace is handy for creating titles, names, or words in general from file names. The str_replace function, as shown, removes the underscore [ _ ] character, often used to replace spaces for file names (for avoiding filenames with space characters, a recommended practice), and replaces it in the visible text with a space. Then the function ucwords() capitalizes each word of the string, sometimes known as “Title Case”. It works very well!

$process = $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];
$patharray = pathinfo($process);
$thispage = rtrim($patharray['basename'], $patharray['extension']);

$thispage_rtrim = rtrim($thispage, '.');
$replaced = str_replace("_", " ", $thispage_rtrim);

$bodyid = $thispage_rtrim;
$bodyUcWords = ucwords($replaced);

preg_replace()

The following snippet shows an instance of the use of preg_replace() in which any string (in this case, a word) with an “S” at the end would have that letter stripped from the string:

$subject=$xtraHead;
$pattern = '/([\w])([^s]?)$/';
$replace = '';
$xxHead=preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $subject);

substr

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

substr — Return part of a string

Description

string substr ( string $string, int $start [, int $length] )

substr() returns the portion of string
specified by the start and
length parameters⁽¹⁾.

If start is non-negative, the returned string
will start at the start‘th position in
string, counting from zero. For instance,
in the string ‘abcdef‘, the character at
position 0 is ‘a‘, the
character at position 2 is
‘c‘, and so forth.

Assignment Operators

[ . . . SNIP . . . ]

In addition to the basic assignment operator, there are “combined
operators” for all of the binary
arithmetic, array union and string operators that allow you to use a value in an
expression and then set its value to the result of that expression. For
example:

Note that the assignment copies the original variable to the new
one (assignment by value), so changes to one will not affect the
other. This may also have relevance if you need to copy something
like a large array inside a tight loop. Since PHP 4, assignment
by reference has been supported, using the $var =
&$othervar; syntax, but this is not possible
in PHP 3. ‘Assignment by reference’ means that both variables end
up pointing at the same data, and nothing is copied anywhere.
To learn more about references, please read References explained. As of PHP 5, objects are assigned by reference unless explicitly told otherwise with the new clone keyword.

Function arguments

Information may be passed to functions via the argument list,
which is a comma-delimited list of expressions.

PHP supports passing arguments by value (the default), passing by reference, and default argument values. Variable-length argument lists are supported only in PHP 4 and later; see Variable-length argument lists and the function references for func_num_args(), func_get_arg(), and func_get_args() for more information. A similar effect can be achieved in PHP 3 by passing an array of arguments to a function:

A function may define C++-style default values for scalar arguments
as follows:

The output from the above snippet is:

Making a cup of cappuccino.
Making a cup of .
Making a cup of espresso.

Also PHP allows you to use arrays and special type NULL as default
values, for example:

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