Lately I have been trying to find cool PHP utilities that I can use to handle my day to day tasks.  Lately parsing CSV files in PHP has been something I have had to do over and over again.  Such a basic task can be such a pain considering all of the different formats that they can be in (mostly the quotes around some of the values). I would do find and replace on the file to remove all the extra stuff and hope that I did not corrupt the data. (more…)