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Chapter 7: Improving the Dashboard

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Figure 7-6

The next part is where you start using the CSVReader library. You ’ re going to add an importCsv()
function to the MProducts model. In this function, you ’ re going to load two libraries: upload and
CSVReader. You ’ re going to upload the CSV files into the /tmp directory and use the parseFile()
method to parse the document and return an array of data.

function importCsv(){

$config[‘upload_path’] = ‘/tmp/’;

$config[‘allowed_types’] = ‘csv’;

$config[‘max_size’] = ‘2000’;

$config[‘remove_spaces’] = true;

$config[‘overwrite’] = true;

$this- > load- > library(‘upload’, $config);

$this- > load- > library(‘CSVreader’);

if(!$this- > upload- > do_upload(‘csvfile’)){

$this- > upload- > display_errors();

exit();

}

$csv = $this- > upload- > data();

$path = $csv[‘full_path’];

return $this- > csvreader- > parseFile($path);

}