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Working with large csv file memory efficiently in PHP

When we are supposed to work with large csv file with 500K or 1mil records, there is always a thing to be careful about the memory usage. If our program consumes lot of memory , its not good for the physical server we are using. Beside from that our program should also performed well. Today I would like to share some tips working with laravel csv file.

Configuration

Firstly , we have to make sure our PHP setting is configured. Please check the below settings and configure as you need. But keep in mind, don’t enlarge the memory_limit value if it’s not required.

- memory_limit
- post_max_size
- upload_max_filesize
- max_execution_time

Code

Once our PHP configuration is done, you might to restart the server or PHP itself. The next step is our code. We have to write a proper way not to run out of memory.

Normally we used to read the csv files like this.

$handle = fopen($filepath, "r"); //getting our csv file
while ($csv = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) { //looping through each records
//making csv rows validation
// inserting to database
// etc.
}

The above code might be ok for a few records like 1000 to 5000 and so on. But if you are working with 100K 500K records , the while loop will consume lot of memory. So we have to chunk and separate the loop to get some rest time for our program.

$handle = fopen($filepath, "r"); //getting our csv file
$data = []; 
while ($csv = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) { //looping through each records
   $data[] = $csv;// you can customize the array as you want
   //we will only collect each 1000 records and do the operations
   if(count($data) >= 1000){
  // do the operations here
   // inserting to database (If you already prepared the array in above, can directly add to db, no need loops)
   // etc.
   
   //resetting the data array
   $data = [];
   }

   //if there is any rows less than 1000, keep going for it
   if(count($data) > 0){
      // do the operations here
   }
}

Above one is a simple protype to run the program not to run out of the memory, our program will get rest time for each 1000records.

Here is an another way using array_chuck and file function

$csvArray = file($filepath); //this will output array of our csv file
//chunking array by 1000 records
$chunks = array_chunk($csvArray,1000);

// Then lets store the chunked data files in somewhere
foreach ($chunks as $key => $chunk) {
   file_put_contents($path,$chunk);
}

//get the files we have stored and can loop through it
files = glob('path/path'."/*.csv");

foreach ($files as $key => $file) {
  $filer = fopen($file, "r");
  while ($csv = fgetcsv($filer, 1000, ",")) {
     // do the operations here
  }

  //delete the file back
  unlink($file);
}

Please don’t forget to close the files back fclose if you have done the file operations.

Looping content

One more thing to keep in mind is we have to take care of the codes we put inside loops. If there is any

  • Database calls or
  • Third party API calls,

it will surely slow down the performance and consume the memory more. So if you can put these calls outside of the loops, our program will be much more efficient.

I am sure there might also be some other work arounds or some packages to handle about this issue behind the scence.

Yuuma



Laravel 9に搭載される機能の紹介

Laravel v9はLaravelの次のLTSバージョンで、2022年2月頃に登場する予定です。この記事では、これまでに発表された新機能や変更点を概説したいと思います。

テストカバレッジオプションを追加

新しいartisan test –coverage オプションは、テストカバレッジをターミナルに直接表示します。また、–min オプションを使用すると、テストカバレッジの最小閾値を指定することができます。

画像はlaravelのリリースから引用しています。

Enumを使った暗黙のルートバインディング

PHP 8.1ではEnumのサポートが導入されました。Laravel 9では、ルート定義にEnumをタイプヒントする機能が導入され、LaravelはそのルートセグメントがURIの有効なEnum値である場合にのみルートを呼び出します。そうでない場合は、HTTP 404レスポンスが自動的に返されます。例えば、次のようなEnumがあるとします。

ルートセグメント {category} が fruits または people のときだけ呼び出されるルートを定義することができます。そうでない場合は、HTTP 404 レスポンスが返されます。

全文インデックス/Where句

fullText メソッドをカラム定義に追加して、フルテキストインデックスを生成することができるようになりました。

$table->text('bio')->fullText();

whereFullTextまたはWhereFullTextメソッドを使用すると、フルテキストを取得することができます。

$users = DB::table('users')
           ->whereFullText('bio', 'web developer')
           ->get();

* laravelのリリースから引用しています。

また、公式リリースページもご覧いただけます。

今週はここで終了となります。

最後までご高覧頂きまして有難うございました。

By Ami



CSS tricks for web designer

— Absolute positioning

If you want to define where an element is placed on the website at all times, absolute positioning is the key to make this happen. Absolute positioning allows you to control exactly where an element will stay. And then use top, right, bottom and left, accompanied by a pixel value to control the place.

position:absolute;
bottom:10px;
right:10px

The CSS above sets the position of an element to stay 10px from the bottom and right edges of the browser. 

— Use a CSS preprocessor

Use Less or Sass or SCSS when you develop the website. They can help you declare colors, sizes, etc one single time, and create CSS with for cycles and similar things. 

— Link states

The :link pseudo-class controls all links that haven’t been clicked on yet. The :visited pseudo class handles the styling of all of the links you’ve already visited. This tells website visitors where they have already been on the site, and where they have yet to explore.

a:link { color: blue; }
a:visited { color: purple; }

— Resize images to fit

Sometimes images are needed to fit a certain width, while scaling proportionally. An easy way to do this is to use max width to handle this.

Here is an example:

img {
    max-width:100%;
    height:auto;
}

— Split HTML and CSS

It is the best idea of creating different CSS files (for example, one for desktop and one for mobile) while developing, and only, in the end, merge them.

The same principle can be made with HTML. If you’re not developing in SPA environments, you can use PHP to include and require pieces of HTML code.

— Direct children

Use > to select the direct children of an element.

#footer > a

This will select and style all of the active link elements that are immediately under the Footer ID.

—  :before

This CSS is a selector that allows you to choose a CSS element and insert content before every element with a specific class applied to it. 

h3:before { 
    content: "More: ";
<span class="new-blog"> color: #F00;</span>
}

— :after

Like the :before selector, :after can be used to insert content globally on specific elements. A practical use would be adding “see more” after every excerpt on an article . You can do like this:

p:after{ 
    content: " -Read more… ";
    color:#f00;
}

By Tsuki



Useful Laravel Packages

Today I would like to share about useful laravel packages. The following packages are most useful 7 packages of the best laravel packages. Let’s take a look.

Laravel Debugbar

Laravel Debugbar is a package that help users add a developer toolbar to their applications. This package is mainly used for debugging purposes. There are a lot of options available in Debugbar. It allows you to monitor and debug all the requests directly on the Laravel view. You can also monitor SQL queries, Mail, and queue.  

https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-debugbar

Laravel User Verification

This package allows you to handle user verification and validates emails. It generates and stores a verification token for the registered user, sends or queue an email with the verification token link, handles the token verification, sets the user as verified. This package also provides functionality, i.e verified route middleware.

https://github.com/jrean/laravel-user-verification

Socialite

Socialite offers a simple and easy way to handle OAuth authentication. It allows the users to login via some of the most popular social networks and services including Facebook, Twitter, Google, GitHub, and BitBucket.

https://github.com/laravel/socialite

Laravel Mix

Laravel Mix provides a clean and rich Application Programming Interface (API) for defining webpack-build steps for your project. It is the most powerful asset compilation tool available for Laravel today.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/laravel-mix

Migration Generator

Migration generator is a Laravel package that you can use to generate migrations from an existing database, including indexes and foreign keys.

https://github.com/Xethron/migrations-generator

Laravel Backup

This Laravel package creates a backup of all your files within an application. It creates a zip file that contains all files in the directories you specify along with a dump of your database. You can store a backup on any file system.

https://github.com/spatie/laravel-backup

No Captcha

No Captcha is a package for implementing Google reCaptcha validation and protecting forms from spamming. First, you need to obtain a free API key from reCaptcha.

https://github.com/anhskohbo/no-captcha

This is all for now.

Hope you enjoy that.

By Asahi



Laravel 9

It’s not officially release yet. It was originally scheduled to be released around September this year, but the Laravel team decided to release back to January 2022. Lets see what kinds of features might include in Laravel 9.

PHP Version

Laravel 9 requires Symfony 6.0 and has a minimum requirement of PHP 8,so I think the same rules will apply to Laravel 9.

Anonymous stub migrations

Laravel 8.37 announced a new feature called Anonymous Migration that avoids migration class name collisions.

use Illuminate\Database\Migrations\Migration;
use Illuminate\Database\Schema\Blueprint;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;
 
return anoyclass extends Migration {
 
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::table('table', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->string('column');
        });
    }
};

A tidy design for routes:list

The route: list command has been in Laravel for a long time, and the problem I sometimes encounter is that if you have defined large and complex routes, trying to view them in the console can be complicated.

Screenshot 2022-01-05 at 13 57 23
Image credit: nunomaduro

New Query Builder Interface

Laravel 9 has a new QueryBuilder interface developed by Chris Morrell and you can see here for all the details.

For developers who rely on type hints for static analysis, refactoring, or code completion in their IDE, the lack of a shared interface or inheritance between Query\BuilderEloquent\Builder and Eloquent\Relation can be pretty tricky:

return Model::query()
  ->whereNotExists(function($query) {
    // $query is a Query\Builder
  })
  ->whereHas('relation', function($query) {
    // $query is an Eloquent\Builder
  })
  ->with('relation', function($query) {
    // $query is an Eloquent\Relation
  });

SwiftMailer to Symfony Mailer

Swift Mailer has been deprecated in Symfony and Laravel 9 will switch to using Symfony Mailer for all mail transport.

PHP String functions

Although PHP 8 will be the minimum, you can still use PHP string functions, str_contains()str_starts_with() and str_ends_with() internally in the \Illuminate\Support\Str class. You can check here for more detail.

There might be still many featuers going on and I guess laravel 9 is coming soon. When it releases, I might probably write another article relating with this.

Yuuma



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