ilCSVWriter Class Reference

Helper class to generate CSV files. More...

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

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

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

__construct()

ilCSVWriter::__construct

(

)

Constructor.

@access public

Parameters

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

        {
                
        }

Member Function Documentation

addColumn()

ilCSVWriter::addColumn

(

$a_col

)

Add Column.

Will be quoted automatically

@access public

Parameters

string

column value

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

        {
                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;
        }

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

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addRow()

ilCSVWriter::addRow

(

)

Add new line.

@access public

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

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

References $new_line.

getCSVString()

ilCSVWriter::getCSVString

(

)

Get CSV string.

@access public

Parameters

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

        {
                return $this->csv;
        }

References $csv.

quote()

ilCSVWriter::quote (   $a_str )

private

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

@access private

Parameters

string

field value

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

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

Referenced by addColumn().

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setDelimiter()

ilCSVWriter::setDelimiter

(

$a_del

)

Set delimiter.

@access public

Parameters

string

field delimiter

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

        {
                $this->delimiter = $a_del;
        }

setDoUTF8Decoding()

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.

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

References $doUTF8Decoding.

setSeparator()

ilCSVWriter::setSeparator

(

$a_sep

)

Set Seperator.

@access public

Parameters

string

field seperator

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

        {
                $this->separator = $a_sep;
        }

Field Documentation

$csv

ilCSVWriter::$csv = ''

private

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

Referenced by getCSVString().

$delimiter

ilCSVWriter::$delimiter = '"'

private

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

Referenced by addColumn().

$doUTF8Decoding

ilCSVWriter::$doUTF8Decoding = false

private

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

Referenced by setDoUTF8Decoding().

$first_entry

ilCSVWriter::$first_entry = true

private

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

$new_line

ilCSVWriter::$new_line = "\n"

private

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

Referenced by addRow().

$separator

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