CSV Seeder

This package is intended to minimize the time and hassle spent importing CSV-based data. By making a few assumptions about your average CSV file, most users won't need any configuration to start seeding. For those that do, the available configuration options offer plenty of control over your CSV and how the data is inserted into the database.

Overview

• Key Features
• Installation
• Setup
• Usage Examples
  • Mismatched Columns
  • Insert Callbacks
• Configuration
• More Examples
• License

Key Features

• Automatic mapping of CSV headers to the columns in your DB table.
• Aliases allow you to easily adjust a CSV column's name before it's inserted.
• Insert callbacks can be used to directly manipulate the CSV data before it's inserted.
• ORM support - when using a model, common attributes such as $guarded and $fillable are applied to the CSV.

Installation

Require this package in your composer.json and run composer update

"crockett/csv-seeder": "1.1.*"

Or just require it directly composer require crockett/csv-seeder

Setup

Here is a typical, single CSV seeder setup:

use Crockett\CsvSeeder\CsvSeeder;

class UsersTableSeeder extends CsvSeeder {

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->filename = base_path('path/to/csv/users.csv');
        $this->table = 'users';
    }

    public function run()
    {
        // runs the seeder - alternatively, you could call $this->runSeeder(); for the same result
        parent::run();
    }
}

If you want to seed multiple CSVs in the same seeder, you could do something like this:

use Crockett\CsvSeeder\CsvSeeder;

class UsersTableSeeder extends CsvSeeder {

    public function run()
    {
        // seed the users table
        $this->filename = base_path('path/to/csv/users.csv');
        $this->table = 'users';
        parent::run();

        // seed the posts table
        $this->filename = base_path('path/to/csv/posts.csv');
        $this->table = 'posts';
        parent::run();
    }
}

As you can imagine, that can get messy very fast. Instead, you could use the helper method seedFromCSV() which is just a cleaner way to define your parameters and run the seeder in one go:

use Crockett\CsvSeeder\CsvSeeder;

class UsersTableSeeder extends CsvSeeder {

    public function run()
    {
        // seed the users table
        $this->seedFromCSV(base_path('path/to/users.csv'), 'users');

        // seed the posts table
        $this->seedFromCSV(base_path('path/to/posts.csv'), 'posts');
    }
}

Usage Examples

Given the following CSV and database table:

// users.csv
first_name,last_name,birth_date,password,favorite_color
Joe,Bar,2000-02-10,joePassword,red
Jim,Foo,1990-02-10,jimPassword,blue
Foo,Bar,1980-02-10,fooPassword,green

// users DB table
id, first_name, last_name, birth_date, password, favorite_color

You can run the seeder with no further setup:

$this->seedFromCSV(base_path('path/to/users.csv'), 'users');

You could even go a step further and omit the table name, as the CSV filename is the same as the table name. CsvSeeder will automatically try to resolve table and column names when they're not defined. If your CSV doesn't have a header row, you'll need to manually define a $mapping, as described in the next section.

Mismatched columns

Unless you have complete control over your CSVs, the headers won't always match up with your DB columns. For example:

// users.csv
first_name, last_name, birth_date, password, favorite_color

// users DB table
id, first_name, last_name, age, password

In this case, you can define $aliases to rename the birth_date column to age before it's inserted:

$this->aliases = [
    'birth_date' => 'age'
];

$this->seedFromCSV(base_path('path/to/users.csv'), 'users');

Alternatively, you can manually define a $mapping for your CSV. A mapping allows you to explicitly choose and rename CSV columns. For example:

// users.csv
first_name, last_name, birth_date, password, favorite_color

// users DB table
id, first_name, last_name, color, password

// users seeder
$this->mapping = [
    0 => 'first_name',
    1 => 'last_name',
    3 => 'password',
    4 => 'color', // renamed from favorite_color
];

$this->seedFromCSV(base_path('path/to/users.csv'), 'users');

When you define a $mapping, a header row on your CSV is not required. In all other cases, CsvSeeder will assume your header row is the first row after $offset_rows.

Insert Callbacks

In some cases, you'll need to manipulate the CSV data directly before it's inserted to the database. Using an $insert_callback, it couldn't be easier! Everytime a $chunk of rows is read from the CSV, it's passed to the default $insert_callback. All you need to do is define your own callback to override it.

Here we'll iterate over individual rows in the chunk and insert them using Model::create():

$this->insert_callback = function ($chunk) {
    foreach($chunk as $row) {
        \App\User::create($row->toArray());
    }
};

$this->seedFromCSV(base_path('path/to/users.csv'), 'users');

Note, $chunk and $row are instances of \Illuminate\Support\Collection so you can easily manipulate and filter the rows and columns:

$this->insert_callback = function ($chunk) {
    foreach($chunk as $row) {
        $user_data = $row->only('first_name', 'last_name', 'password')->toArray();
        \App\User::create($user_data);
    }
};

$this->seedFromCSV(base_path('path/to/users.csv'), 'users');

Configuration

• table (string) Database table to insert into.
• model (string) Instead of a table name, you can pass an ORM model name.
• model_guard (bool true) - Respect model attributes such as $fillable and $guarded when resolving table columns with a model.
• filename (string) The path to the CSV file.
• delimiter (string ,) The CSV field delimiter.
• offset_rows (int 0) How many rows at the start of the CSV to skip.
• skip_header_row (bool true) Automatically skip the first row if it's determined to be the header. Setting offset_rows higher than 0 bypasses this.
• mapping (array) Associative array of csvColumnIndex => csvColumnName. See examples for details. If not specified, the first row (after offset) of the CSV will be used as the mapping.
• aliases (array) Associative array of csvColumnName => aliasColumnName. See examples for details. Allows for flexible CSV column names.
• hashable (string|array 'password') Hashes the specified field(s) using bcrypt. Useful if you are importing users and need their passwords hashed. Note: This is EXTREMELY SLOW, large CSVs will take time to import.
• insert_chunk_size (int 50) An insert callback will trigger every insert_chunk_size rows while reading the CSV.
• insert_callback (callable) - Override the default insert callback with your own. Callback must accept a Collection of rows ($chunk).
• console_logs (bool true) - Show messages in the console. (neglible performance impact)
• write_logs (bool false) - Write messages to logs. (recommended off for large CSVs)
• disable_query_log (bool true) - Disable the query log. (recommended on for large CSVs)
• log_prefix (string) - Customize the log messages

More Examples

CSV with pipe delimited values:

public function __construct()
{
    $this->table = 'users';
    $this->filename = base_path('database/seeds/csvs/your_csv.csv');
    $this->delimiter = '|';
}

Specifying which CSV columns to import:

public function __construct()
{
    $this->table = 'users';
    $this->filename = base_path('database/seeds/csvs/your_csv.csv');
    $this->mapping = [
        0 => 'first_name',
        1 => 'last_name',
        5 => 'age',
    ];
}

Using a model instead of a table:

public function __construct()
{
    $this->model = \App\User::class;
    $this->filename = base_path('database/seeds/csvs/your_csv.csv');
    // optionally, disable the $model_guard to ignore your model's guarded/fillable attributes
    $this->model_guard = false;
}

Skipping the first row of your CSV (Note: If the first row after the offset isn't the header row, a mapping must be defined):

public function __construct()
{
    $this->table = 'users';
    $this->filename = base_path('database/seeds/csvs/your_csv.csv');
    $this->offset_rows = 1;
    $this->mapping = [
        0 => 'first_name',
        1 => 'last_name',
        2 => 'password',
    ];
}

Aliasing a CSV column:

public function __construct()
{
    $this->table = 'users';
    $this->filename = base_path('database/seeds/csvs/your_csv.csv');
    $this->aliases = [
        'age' => 'date_of_birth',
    ];
}

Aliasing a CSV column defined in $mapping:

public function __construct()
{
    $this->table = 'users';
    $this->filename = base_path('database/seeds/csvs/your_csv.csv');
    $this->mapping = [
        0 => 'first_name',
        1 => 'last_name',
        5 => 'birth_date', // in the CSV file, this column is named 'age'
    ];
    $this->aliases = [
        'birth_date' => 'date_of_birth',
    ];
}

Check out the source of Crockett\CsvSeeder\CsvSeeder for more complete information about the available methods.

License

CsvSeeder is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license