During my recent PHP/TYPO3 adventures I had to come up with some extra array functionality to grab my desired data from an array. Shockingly I couldn't find any official PHP way to do this. So I created my own.

Something I needed to do a while ago, and I thought it wouldn't be a bad idea to share it. It's a quick way to divide an array into equal segments. Just take a look at the function code.

Today I had to fix a problem with some special characters inside a name, but not inside a linked filename. After looking around a little I came up with the following idea.

So why would we want to read data from a CSV file? Well I will give an example, not so long ago a customer requested that data from his back-office system would be imported into his website on a periodic base. The data from this system was supplied was in the CSV format, and of course contained a lot of bogus and unnecesary data. (Otherwise we could have just done it with simple SQL).