read from CSV data (file) into an array with named keys
... with or without 1st row = header (keys) 
(see 4th parameter of function call as true / false) 
<?php 
// --------------------------------------------------------------
function csv_in_array($url,$delm=";",$encl="\"",$head=false) { 
 
 $csvxrow = file($url); // ---- csv rows to array ----
 
 $csvxrow[0] = chop($csvxrow[0]); 
 $csvxrow[0] = str_replace($encl,'',$csvxrow[0]); 
 $keydata = explode($delm,$csvxrow[0]); 
 $keynumb = count($keydata); 
 
 if ($head === true) { 
 $anzdata = count($csvxrow); 
 $z=0; 
 for($x=1; $x<$anzdata; $x++) { 
 $csvxrow[$x] = chop($csvxrow[$x]); 
 $csvxrow[$x] = str_replace($encl,'',$csvxrow[$x]); 
 $csv_data[$x] = explode($delm,$csvxrow[$x]); 
 $i=0; 
 foreach($keydata as $key) { 
 $out[$z][$key] = $csv_data[$x][$i]; 
 $i++;
 } 
 $z++;
 }
 }
 else { 
 $i=0;
 foreach($csvxrow as $item) { 
 $item = chop($item); 
 $item = str_replace($encl,'',$item); 
 $csv_data = explode($delm,$item); 
 for ($y=0; $y<$keynumb; $y++) { 
 $out[$i][$y] = $csv_data[$y]; 
 }
 $i++;
 }
 }
return $out; 
}
// --------------------------------------------------------------
?>

fuction call with 4 parameters: 
(1) = the file with CSV data (url / string)
(2) = colum delimiter (e.g: ; or | or , ...)
(3) = values enclosed by (e.g: ' or " or ^ or ...)
(4) = with or without 1st row = head (true/false) 
<?php
// ----- call ------ 
$csvdata = csv_in_array( $yourcsvfile, ";", "\"", true ); 
// ----------------- 
// ----- view ------ 
echo "<pre>\r\n"; 
print_r($csvdata);
echo "</pre>\r\n"; 
// -----------------
?>

PS: also see: http://php.net/manual/de/function.fgetcsv.php to read CSV data into an array
... and other file-handling methods 
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