eg:

auto_detect_line_endings “0″ PHP_INI_ALL Available since PHP 4.3.0.

therefore:

ini_set('auto_detect_line_endings','1'); // Will fix detection of line endings automatically

Here’s another handy function using fgetcsv() which returns an associative array - Thanks to Donovan Bray on php.net:

/**
* Based on an example by ramdac at ramdac dot org
* Returns a multi-dimensional array from a CSV file optionally using the
* first row as a header to create the underlying data as associative arrays.
* @param string $file Filepath including filename
* @param bool $head Use first row as header.
* @param string $delim Specify a delimiter other than a comma.
* @param int $len Line length to be passed to fgetcsv
* @return array or false on failure to retrieve any rows.
*/
function importcsv($file,$head=false,$delim=",",$len=1000) {
$return = false;
$handle = fopen($file, "r");
if ($head) {
$header = fgetcsv($handle, $len, $delim);
}
while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, $len, $delim)) !== FALSE) {
if ($head AND isset($header)) {
foreach ($header as $key=>$heading) {
$row[$heading]=(isset($data[$key])) ? $data[$key] : '';
}
$return[]=$row;
} else {
$return[]=$data;
}
}
fclose($handle);
return $return;
}