What file format does EasyTable support?

[craig]

A few people have emailed to say that they are getting erros when uploading the component. All of them have so far have been because of errors in the CSV file they were using - CSV file format (RFC4180) is defined here, a more readable summary is on Wikipedia.

The key part of the error message occurs at very begining:

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Data insert failed for table: XX in updateETTDTableFrom()
Possibly your CSV file is malformed

EasyTable only supports CSV files and it does this using PHP's method fgetCSV method. If the fgetCSV throws up an error you will see that line "Possibly your CSV file is malformed"

The first thing to check is the CSV file meets the definition. The best way to do this is using a Unicode aware text editor that can search for & display invisible characters in your CSV file, ( and no Notepad isn't good enough ). I personally recommend BBEdit but I'm sure there's something on Windows/Linux environments that does a similar job.

Things to look out for

• control characters that need to be encoded first
• comma's in the body of a field that aren't properly encased
• the wrong delimiter used for fields eg. a semi-colon ; rather than a comma

To determine if your file is the source of the problem try downloading the sample CSV file in our downloads area and uploading it to your website. If that works then there's a reasonable chance that your CSV file is malformed as the error message indicates.

Failing all of that, you can send the file in question to our subscriber support forum and we'll take a look at it for you.