Use fgetcsv for tab delimited file

Question

Is it possible to use fgetcsv in PHP to open a tab-delimited file?

Answer 1

yes, you can specify tab "\t" in its parameters. see the doc.

while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, "\t")) !== FALSE)

Answer 2

$csvData = fgetcsv($fileHandle, 0, "\t");

Where $fileHandle is a valid file handle. The 0 is just to tell the function not to limit seeking through lines (however you can change this to suit, the docs do say not imposing a limit decreases performance).