Tag: code
Zend Framework and File Locking Pitfalls
Earlier today while reading through the Zend Framework 1.6 RC1 release notes I've come across an interesting bug that has been fixed: [ZF-3382] Zend_Cache_Backend_File problems under very high load.
There are a lot of things to say about this issue. The obvious ones first:
1. Under typical operation such as opening, locking, reading/writing, and then closing a […]
Posted: August 3rd, 2008 under Development, PHP, Software & Tools, Zend Framework.
Tags: code, flock, PHP, zend framework, zf
Comments: none
Handling CSV data with PHP the Smart Way
Let's assume we have a file "users.csv", containing the following data:
"Username","Firstname","Lastname","Age"
"johndoe","John","Doe","21"
"hmiller","Hank","Miller","35"
Processing the data in PHP is rather straight forward, by simply using fgetcsv(). Let's display the user's name and age:
// open the file for reading
$f = fopen('users.csv', 'r');
// just a dummy read to get the header out of the way
fgetcsv($f);
// loop through each line
while ($data […]
Posted: June 14th, 2005 under PHP.
Tags: code, csv, data, PHP, processing
Comments: none