thephpleague/csv

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3480 stars · 351 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

League CSV is a lightweight, framework-agnostic PHP library for reading, writing, filtering, and converting CSV documents. It offers a straightforward API with memory-efficient streaming, query features, object mapping, and conversion to JSON, XML, or HTML.

Use cases

• parse csv files in php
• export database table to csv
• import csv records into a database
• convert csv to json or xml
• filter and query csv rows
• stream large csv files efficiently
• generate downloadable csv from php

When to choose

• you work in PHP and need robust CSV parsing or writing beyond native fgetcsv
• you need memory-efficient handling of large CSV files
• you want to map CSV records to PHP objects or DTOs
• you need to convert CSV to JSON, XML, or HTML

When to avoid

• you need a spreadsheet library with formula support like Excel files (use PhpSpreadsheet)
• your project is not in PHP
• you only need trivial one-line CSV parsing already covered by native PHP functions

Facets

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parser serialization data-science files developer-tools php csv csv-reader csv-writer data-conversion php-library data-engineering

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