CSV vs csv-collection

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CSV		csv-collection
	Project
7	Mentions	1
3,277	Stars	10
0.9%	Growth	-
9.2	Activity	3.4
11 days ago	Latest Commit	11 months ago
PHP	Language	PHP
MIT License	License	MIT License

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

CSV

Posts with mentions or reviews of CSV. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-27.

CSV importer with field mapping
1 project | /r/PHPhelp | 27 Apr 2023

I'd recommend https://packagist.org/packages/league/csv. You can find docs/examples here https://csv.thephpleague.com/.
How to query a CSV input in PHP as if it was a database table?
2 projects | /r/PHPhelp | 27 Mar 2023

Take a look at https://csv.thephpleague.com/. This will make it easy to read in rows using a for loop and insert them into a database.
Need help in processing a CSV file with around a million lines.
3 projects | /r/laravel | 17 Oct 2022

Either use something like league/csv or use fgetcsv directly.
How to read a csv file in PHP?
2 projects | /r/programming | 28 Aug 2022

I suggest https://csv.thephpleague.com/ as a replacement for reading CSV files.
Cara Upload Banyak Data Sekaligus Dengan Laravel
1 project | dev.to | 26 Sep 2021
Importing .csv data to website.
1 project | /r/webdev | 15 Sep 2021
Packing for importing/exporting csv files
2 projects | /r/laravel | 25 Jul 2021

https://github.com/thephpleague/csv is probably the most widely used.

csv-collection

Posts with mentions or reviews of csv-collection. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-17.

Need help in processing a CSV file with around a million lines.
3 projects | /r/laravel | 17 Oct 2022

I wrote a package for this a while ago for some projects in our company :) https://github.com/DutchCodingCompany/csv-collection. It has helped us quiet a few times! It uses the 'fgetcsv' and a LazyCollection internally.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing CSV and csv-collection you can also consider the following projects:

Flysystem - Abstraction for local and remote filesystems

fast-excel - 🦉 Fast Excel import/export for Laravel

Gaufrette - PHP library that provides a filesystem abstraction layer − will be a feast for your files!

Apache MIME Types - Apache MIME Types

Lurker - Resource Tracking

Hoa Mime - The Hoa\Mime library.

Ferret - Mime detection library

PHP FFmpeg - An object oriented PHP driver for FFMpeg binary

FileTypeDetector - Detects file type by filename or content and generates correct mimetype.

filesystem - Filesystem Package provide a fluent, object-oriented interface for working with filesystem.

Canal - Analyze content to determine the appropriate Internet media type

UnifiedArchive - UnifiedArchive - an archive manager with unified interface for different formats (bundled with cli utility). Supports all formats with basic operations (reading, extracting and creation) and popular formats specific features (compression level, password-protection, comment)