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phpjsoncsvdata-export

PHP Library to convert JSON to CSV?

I've got a JSON service and need to create a script to export data to CSV files. Does anyone have a method or library you can suggest to migrate JSON to CSV format?

Here's an example format though I expect to have to retro-fit the solution to work with it:

{"service_name":
      { key : value, key : value....}
}

or:

{"service_name":
        [
               { key : value, key : value....},
               ...
         ]
}
Solution

  • i generally agree with the commenters, but if you're data is prepared this way, isn't this pseudo-code all you need?

    $json_str = "{'aintlist':[4,3,2,1], 'astringlist':['str1','str2']}";

$json_obj = json_decode ($json_str);

$fp = fopen('file.csv', 'w');

foreach ($json_obj as $fields) {
    fputcsv($fp, $fields);
}

fclose($fp);