Collect remote CSV file and save to a local CSV file using PHP

Here is a quick way to read a csv file hosted remotely, download its contents and store it to a local csv file. Once the file have been saved open the file loop through the data and display it. Equally this can be used to import data into a database.

Perfect for a daily task by calling the script with a cron job.

//collect the remote csv file
$csv = file_get_contents('https://domain.com/records.csv');

//save the data to a local csv file
file_put_contents('data.csv', $csv);

//open the local csv file
$handle = fopen('data.csv', "r");

//loop through the records
while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE) {
    for ($c=0; $c < 1; $c++) {  

        //view the data 
        print_r($data);
        
    }    
}

//close the file
fclose($handle);