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.

Imagine all the time you will put into trying to reverse engineer what the DBAL wrapper function you use is trying to generate, when we could just print ANY query that was generated with ANY one of the DBAL wrappers!

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).