What is the recommended function in PHP for reading and parsing CSV files?

When working with CSV files in PHP, the recommended function for reading and parsing the data is `fgetcsv()`. This function reads a line from an open file pointer and parses it as CSV fields. It automatically handles delimiter characters, enclosure characters, and escape characters commonly found in CSV files. 

$filename = 'data.csv';
$file = fopen($filename, 'r');

if ($file) {
    while (($data = fgetcsv($file)) !== false) {
        // Process the CSV data here
        print_r($data);
    }
    fclose($file);
} else {
    echo "Error opening file.";
}

Keywords

fgetcsv fopen file handling data parsing CSV files

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