Please note, that fputcsv ist not always enclosing strings with the enclosure character.
<?php
$fh = fopen('file.csv', 'w');
$a = [ 'One 1', 'Two', 'Three 3' ];
fputcsv($fh, $a, "\t");
fclose($fh);
?>
results in a file containing the line:
"One 1" Two "Three 3"
It seems that only strings containing at least one of the following characters are enclosed:
- the delimiter character
- the enclosure character
- the escape character
- \n (new line)
- \r (line feed)
- \t (tab)
- blank
I hope this saves you the hour it took me to get to the bottom of this behaviour.
