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Installation

System Requirements

You need PHP >= 5.5.0 and the mbstring extension to use Csv but the latest stable version of PHP is recommended.

Composer

Csv is available on Packagist and can be installed using Composer:

composer require league/csv:^8.0

Going Solo

You can also use League\Csv without using Composer by downloading the library on Github.

• Visit the releases page;
• Select the version you want
• click the Source Code download link in your preferred compress format;

The library is compatible with any PSR-4 compatible autoloader.

Also, League\Csv comes bundle with its own autoloader script autoload.php located in the root directory.

use League\Csv\Reader;
use League\Csv\Writer;

require '/path/to/league/csv/autoload.php';

//your script starts here

where path/to/league/csv represents the path where the library was extracted.