CSV to Associative Array

I've seen numerous examples on how to take a CSV file and then create an associative array with the headers as the keys.

For example:

Brand,Model,Part,Test
Honda,Civic,123,244
Honda,Civic,135,434
Toyota,Supra,511,664

Where it would create an Array such as Array[$num][$key] where $key would be Brand, Model, Part, Test.

So If I wanted to access the test value "434" I would have to loop every index in the array and then ignore any Brands that were not honda, and any models that were not Civic

What I need to do is access the value most directly, instead of running through a for loop going through each $num index. I want to be able to access the value test "434" with:

Array['Honda']['Civic']['135']

or control a for statement with looping through every model Honda has... something like

foreach $model in Array['Honda']

At the very least I need to be able to go through every model given a known Brand and access all the relative info for each.

Edit:

Just to confirm I was setting this up an example. My actually data has headers like:

brand model part price shipping description footnote

Of which I need to access all the information tied to the part (price, shipping,desc, footnote)

Solution 1:

Too many long solutions. I've always found this to be the simplest:

<?php
    /* Map Rows and Loop Through Them */
    $rows   = array_map('str_getcsv', file('file.csv'));
    $header = array_shift($rows);
    $csv    = array();
    foreach($rows as $row) {
        $csv[] = array_combine($header, $row);
    }
?>

Solution 2:

run over the csv file line by line, and insert to array like:

$array = $fields = array(); $i = 0;
$handle = @fopen("file.csv", "r");
if ($handle) {
    while (($row = fgetcsv($handle, 4096)) !== false) {
        if (empty($fields)) {
            $fields = $row;
            continue;
        }
        foreach ($row as $k=>$value) {
            $array[$i][$fields[$k]] = $value;
        }
        $i++;
    }
    if (!feof($handle)) {
        echo "Error: unexpected fgets() fail\n";
    }
    fclose($handle);
}

Solution 3:

To create an associative list array use something like:

$keys = fgetcsv($f);
while (!feof($f)) {
    $array[] = array_combine($keys, fgetcsv($f));
}

And to traverse and filter by specific attributes write a function like:

function find($find) {
    foreach ($array as $row) {
         if (array_intersect_assoc($row, $find) == $find) {
             $result[] = $row;
         }
    }
}

Where you would invoke it with $find = array(Brand=>Honda, Model=>Civic, Part=>135) to filter out the searched models. The other positional array structure seems not very workable, unless you only want to access the "Test" attribute.

Solution 4:

Try this simple algorithm:

        $assocData = array();

        if( ($handle = fopen( $importedCSVFile, "r")) !== FALSE) {
            $rowCounter = 0;
            while (($rowData = fgetcsv($handle, 0, ",")) !== FALSE) {
                if( 0 === $rowCounter) {
                    $headerRecord = $rowData;
                } else {
                    foreach( $rowData as $key => $value) {
                        $assocData[ $rowCounter - 1][ $headerRecord[ $key] ] = $value;  
                    }
                }
                $rowCounter++;
            }
            fclose($handle);
        }

        var_dump( $assocData);