I'm trying to parse csv using str_getcsv
in the following manner however I'm running into two problems (below).
$url = 'http://my.events.calendar/api/csv?mycalendarquery';
$response = wp_remote_get($url);
$response_body = $response['body']; // this is a really long string
$parsed_string = str_getcsv($response_body, ',', '"');
$full_events_array = array_chunk($parsed_string, 11);
Problem 1 - I can't use explode
because one of the fields in the csv is "Description"
which contains many/lengthy prose descriptions of events. Naturally these include commas, new lines, returns, etc...
Problem 2 - This is the one I have a question about. The categories (headers?) for the csv file are "Subject", "Date", (more things here...) "Description", "Calendar Address"
. However the last one doesn't have a comma after it. So, the entries for "Subject"
and "Calendar"
address are being combined like this -
array(11) {
[0] =>
string(32) "Calendar Address
"Application Due"" // this pattern happens for every event but with a url instead.
// Yes, I know this looks wrong in the code block, but this is exactly how the data is coming in (complete with the double quotes).
How do I parse this so that Calendar Address
and Application Due
are separated?
For reference, I've also tried str_getcsv($response_body, '"', ',');
str_getcsv($response_body, ',', '"', '
');
and several other combinations. Thanks for the help!