Open ProjectPublic PHP repository
PROJECT CASE STUDY // Backend engineering and structured data processing
Supplier Product Parser
A PHP command-line application that parses CSV and TSV supplier catalogues, validates product records and generates a report of unique product combinations.
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PROJECT_PROFILE.exe
SYSTEM RECORD
>PROJECT: Supplier Product Parser
>CATEGORY: Open Project
>DOMAIN: Backend engineering and structured data processing
>VISIBILITY: PUBLIC
>STATUS: Public PHP repository
01
ENGINEERING OVERVIEW
Challenge and contribution
CHALLENGE
Supplier catalogue files can contain repeated product configurations and invalid rows that need to be processed consistently.
CONTRIBUTION
Built an object-oriented PHP CLI workflow separating command-line handling, product representation, validation, file parsing and combination aggregation.
02
IMPLEMENTATION RECORD
Implemented and delivered
- Reads supplier product catalogues from CSV and TSV files.
- Accepts configurable input and output paths through CLI options.
- Maps structured catalogue rows into product objects.
- Validates required brand and model information.
- Throws exceptions for invalid product records.
- Groups matching product attributes into unique combinations.
- Exports combination counts into a generated CSV report.
- Includes example source files and PHPUnit validation tests.
03
FUTURE ROADMAP
Planned improvements
Expand PHPUnit coverage for parsing and malformed input cases.
Introduce namespaces and PSR-4 autoloading.
Add configurable field mappings for different supplier formats.
Add GitHub Actions continuous integration.
Support streaming for larger catalogue files.