In the latest post to his site David Lundgren takes a look at two pieces of PHP's SPL libraries - the FileObject and LimitIterator.

Over that last couple of weeks I've come to use the SPL far more than I have in the past. The SplFileObject for reading CSV files is far more convenient than the fgetcsv() function, and associated code needed for a CSV file. Using the LimitIterator allowed me to easily bypass the first row of the CSV, as they were headers and I knew the format of those headers.

He includes an example of using these two to read from a CSV file, processing the header information and each row following. He also gives another example of the LimitIterator handing the results of a database query, reducing the array set down to only the first twelve items. You can find out more about these two handy tools in their SPL documentation, FileObject and LimitIterator, as well as the rest of the SPL if you haven't looked into it before.