Csv2Csv

Converter between CSV formats created as a proof-of-concept implementation of the symfony-cli-skeleton.

License

Copyright (c) 2013 Miguel Angel Gabriel (magabriel@gmail.com)

This extension is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE.md.

Description

Everything is explained in this blog post.

Just as a quick recap, this provides an easily customizable. maintainable and testable solution to a common problem: converting between different CSV file formats. Just read the blog post, clone the project and start customizing the conversion.

The example

Let's imagine that we receive a CSV file with new book releases and are tasked with converting it to two separate files:

• A file with data for each ebook in the input file, but with a different set of fields and some conversions.
• A file with only cover images data.

The assumption is that each output format corresponds to the format needed to import the books data into a given ecommerce platform.

Testing

Unit tests are included and are very easy to adapt.

To run them: phpunit -c app/ from the project root.

Sidenote

This project was never intended to be released. Instead, it was created just to provide a walkthrough of a real case implementation of the symfony-cli-skeleton. But, after some interaction with a very persistent guy (who talked me into helping him to make it work, which in turn led to finding a bug in the code), I reconsidered my position and decided to upload it to GitHub. I really hope someone find it useful.