A Laravel package to easily generate CSV files from Eloquent model.

$users = User::get(); // All users
$csvExporter = new \Laracsv\Export();
$csvExporter->build($users, ['email', 'name'])->download();

And a proper CSV file will be downloaded with email and name fields.

Just run this on your terminal:

composer require "usmanhalalit/laracsv:1.*@dev"

and you should be good to go.

• Build CSV
• Output Options
  • Download
• Custom Headers
• Modify or Add Values
  • Add fields and values
• Model Relationships

$exporter->build($modelCollection, $fields) takes two parameters. First one is the model (collection of models), and seconds one takes the field names you want to export.

$csvExporter->build(User::get(), ['email', 'name', 'created_at']);

To get file downloaded to the browser:

$csvExporter->download();

You can provide a filename if you wish:

$csvExporter->download('active_users.csv');

If no filename is given a filename with date-time will be generated.

LaraCSV uses League CSV. You can do what League CSV is able to do. You can get the underlying League CSV instance by calling:

$csv = $csvExporter->getCsv();

And then you can do several things like:

$csv->toHTML(); // To output the CSV as an HTML table 
$csv->jsonSerialize()(); // To turn the CSV in to an array 
$csv = (string) $csv; // To get the CSV as string
echo $csv; // To print the CSV

For more information please check League CSV documentation.

Above code example will generate a CSV with headers email, name, created_at and corresponding rows after.

If you want to change the header with a custom label just pass it as array value:

$csvExporter->build(User::get(), ['email', 'name' => 'Full Name', 'created_at' => 'Joined']);

Now name column will show the header Full Name but it will still take values from name field of the model.

There is a hook which is triggered before processing a database row. For example, if you want to change the date format you can do so.

$csvExporter = new \Laracsv\Export();
$users = User::get();

// Register the hook before building
$csvExporter->beforeEach(function ($user) {
    $user->created_at = date('f', strtotime($user->created_at)); 
});

$csvExporter->build($users, ['email', 'name' => 'Full Name', 'created_at' => 'Joined']);

Note: If a beforeEach callback returns false then the entire will be excluded from the CSV. It can come handy to filter some rows.

You may also add fields that don't exists in a database table add values on the fly:

// The notes field doesn't exist so values for this field will be blank by default 
$csvExporter->beforeEach(function ($user) {
    // Now notes field will have this value
    $user->notes = 'Add your notes'; 
});

$csvExporter->build($users, ['email', 'notes']);

You can also add fields in the CSV from related database tables, given the model has relationships defined.

This will get the product title and the related category's title (one to one):

$csvExporter->build($products, ['title', 'category.title']);

You may also tinker relation things as you wish with hooks:

$products = Product::where('order_count', '>', 10)->orderBy('order_count', 'desc')->get();
$fields = ['id', 'title','original_price' => 'Market Price', 'category_ids',];
$csvExporter = new \Laracsv\Export();
$csvExporter->beforeEach(function ($product) {
    $product->category_ids = implode(', ', $product->categories->pluck('id')->toArray());
});

• Import CSV