ilCSVWriter Class Reference

Helper class to generate CSV files. More...

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Public Member Functions
	__construct ()
	Constructor.
	setSeparator ($a_sep)
	Set Seperator.
	setDelimiter ($a_del)
	Set delimiter.
	addRow ()
	Add new line.
	setDoUTF8Decoding ($doUTF8Decoding)
	set to true if you want to utf8 decode for output.
	addColumn ($a_col)
	Add Column.
	getCSVString ()
	Get CSV string.

Private Member Functions
	quote ($a_str)
	Quote Delimiter by doubling it This seems to be the standard way in Excel and Openoffice.

Private Attributes
	$csv = ''
	$separator = ','
	$delimiter = '"'
	$new_line = "\n"
	$doUTF8Decoding = false
	$first_entry = true

Detailed Description

Helper class to generate CSV files.

Default field seperator is ',' Default string delimiter is '"' Multiple "-'s will be substituted with ""

Author

Stefan Meyer meyer.nosp@m.@lei.nosp@m.fos.c.nosp@m.om

Version

$Id$

Definition at line 38 of file class.ilCSVWriter.php.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

ilCSVWriter::__construct

(

)

Constructor.

public

Parameters

Definition at line 55 of file class.ilCSVWriter.php.

        {
                
        }

Member Function Documentation

ilCSVWriter::addColumn

(

$a_col

)

Add Column.

Will be quoted automatically

public

Parameters

string

column value

Definition at line 113 of file class.ilCSVWriter.php.

References $delimiter, $separator, and quote().

        {
                if(!$this->first_entry)
                {
                        $this->csv .= $this->separator;
                }
                $this->csv .= $this->delimiter;
                $this->csv .= $this->quote($a_col);
                $this->csv .= $this->delimiter;
                $this->first_entry = false;
        }

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ilCSVWriter::addRow

(

)

Add new line.

public

Definition at line 89 of file class.ilCSVWriter.php.

References $new_line.

        {
                $this->csv .= $this->new_line;
                $this->first_entry = true;
        }

ilCSVWriter::getCSVString

(

)

Get CSV string.

public

Parameters

Definition at line 132 of file class.ilCSVWriter.php.

References $csv.

        {
                return $this->csv;
        }

ilCSVWriter::quote (   $a_str )

private

Quote Delimiter by doubling it This seems to be the standard way in Excel and Openoffice.

private

Parameters

string

field value

Definition at line 145 of file class.ilCSVWriter.php.

Referenced by addColumn().

        {
                return str_replace($this->delimiter,$this->delimiter.$this->delimiter, ($this->doUTF8Decoding) ? utf8_decode( $a_str ) : $a_str);
        }

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ilCSVWriter::setDelimiter

(

$a_del

)

Set delimiter.

public

Parameters

string

field delimiter

Definition at line 78 of file class.ilCSVWriter.php.

        {
                $this->delimiter = $a_del;
        }

ilCSVWriter::setDoUTF8Decoding

(

$doUTF8Decoding

)

set to true if you want to utf8 decode for output.

Parameters

doUTF8Decoding

boolean if set to true file is written using a utf8decode before writing values

Definition at line 101 of file class.ilCSVWriter.php.

References $doUTF8Decoding.

        {
                $this->doUTF8Decoding = $doUTF8Decoding ? true : false;
        }

ilCSVWriter::setSeparator

(

$a_sep

)

Set Seperator.

public

Parameters

string

field seperator

Definition at line 66 of file class.ilCSVWriter.php.

        {
                $this->separator = $a_sep;
        }

Field Documentation

ilCSVWriter::$csv = ''

private

Definition at line 40 of file class.ilCSVWriter.php.

Referenced by getCSVString().

ilCSVWriter::$delimiter = '"'

private

Definition at line 42 of file class.ilCSVWriter.php.

Referenced by addColumn().

ilCSVWriter::$doUTF8Decoding = false

private

Definition at line 44 of file class.ilCSVWriter.php.

Referenced by setDoUTF8Decoding().

ilCSVWriter::$first_entry = true

private

Definition at line 46 of file class.ilCSVWriter.php.

ilCSVWriter::$new_line = "\n"

private

Definition at line 43 of file class.ilCSVWriter.php.

Referenced by addRow().

ilCSVWriter::$separator = ','

private

Definition at line 41 of file class.ilCSVWriter.php.

Referenced by addColumn().

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• Services/Utilities/classes/class.ilCSVWriter.php