PHP CSV file as database table

[p0lar]

Just curious -- I need to build a quick stand-alone application and prefer not to involve a formal database whatsoever for reasons not worth discussing. Performance is a non-issue, and filesystem security is adequate as it will never see the light of the Internet.

Perl has the DBI module with CSV functionality that even works well with the SQL update syntax, is there anything for PHP or is this like reading in the entire file as an array, modifying it, then spitting it back out? (ugh)

Any pointers are appreciated.

 

[dandragonrage]

Why not use serialize/deserialize? Or is this a file you hand create?

 

[clamum]

Something like this? I use that function to read in values from a CSV file.

As for outputting, it looks like there's this, but it's only for PHP versions > 5 which you may or may not have.