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terremoth/php-dsv
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v1.0.3(1y ago)15MITPHPPHP ^8.0

Since Nov 22Pushed 1y ago1 watchersCompare

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PHP DSV Reader & Writer
===========================

[](#php-dsv-reader--writer)

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Inspired by: [Why you should use and prefer DSV format instead of CSV](https://matthodges.com/posts/2024-08-12-csv-bad-dsv-good/)

See [demos/demo.php](demos/demo.php) for examples.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require terremoth/php-dsv
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';

use DSV\Writer;
use DSV\Reader;

$data = [
    ['Name', 'Comment'],
    ['Alice', 'She said, "Hello" and waved.'],
    ['Bob', 'This is a multi-line comment\r\nspanning two lines.'],
    ['Charlie', 'More fun with\ntwo lines.'],
    ['Diana', 'How about some UTF-8: café, naïve, résumé. 📝'],
    ['Edward', 'アップル'],
];

$writer = new Writer('demos/data.dsv');
$writer->write($data); // will write the $data to file in DSV format

$reader = new Reader('demos/data.dsv');
print_r($reader->read()); // will read the demos/data.dsv file and put it in array format
```

###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 43% of packages

Maintenance38

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity5

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity47

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~0 days

Total

4

Last Release

542d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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---

Top Contributors

[![terremoth](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/11032344?v=4)](https://github.com/terremoth "terremoth (19 commits)")

---

Tags

data-parserdata-parsingdsvdsv-parserdsv-readerdata extractiondsvdata-parsing

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPsalm

Code StylePHP\_CodeSniffer

Type Coverage Yes

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