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CsvDataSource

DataKit comes with a CsvDataSource that reads a CSV or TSV file. You can provide the separator, enclosure and escape character to suite your specific file.

The datasource assumes the first row to contain all the labels for the columns.

Example usage​

use DataKit\DataViews\Data\CsvDataSource;

$csv_datasource = new CsvDataSource( '<absolute_path_to_csv>' );
$tsv_datasource = new CsvDataSource( '<absolute_path_to_tsv>', "\t" ); // Separate on tabs.

Using WordPress Attachments​

The DataKit Plugin also provides a convenient AttachmentDataSource that can create datasource's based on attachment ID's. Instead of creating a AttachmentDataSource, it has named constructors for the specific file types.

use DataKit\Plugin\Data\AttachmentDataSource;

// In both these cases, the datasource will be a `CsvDataSource` with the absolute path resolved.
$csv_datasource = AttachmentDataSource::csv( 109 );
$tsv_datasource = AttachmentDataSource::csv( 109, "\t" );