Posted by Jim Moseby on 09/25/68 11:29

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Rees [mailto:mrees@itsagoodprice.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 11:11 AM
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Uploaded CSV -> database
>
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jim Moseby [mailto:JMoseby@nrbindustries.com]
> > > Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 10:41 AM
> > > To: 'Brian Dunning'; php-general@lists.php.net
> > > Subject: RE: [PHP] Uploaded CSV -> database
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Brian Dunning [mailto:brian@briandunning.com]
> > > > Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 10:37 AM
> > > > To: php-general@lists.php.net
> > > > Subject: [PHP] Uploaded CSV -> database
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have an example of code to process a CSV file
> > > submitted
> > > > via a file upload and parse it out in order to write its
> > > > records to a
> > > > db?
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > With MYSQL (assuming permissions and such are in order) You
> > > would simply:
> > >
> > > $sql="load data local infile '/path/to/csv' into table
> > > tablename fields
> > > terminated by ','";
> > >
> >
> > I should amend this to say that the columns in your CSV
> file, and in the
> > table must match for this to work.
> >
> > If you wanted to parse through it line by line and do it
> all manually,
> check
> > out the fread() and explode() functions in the PHP manual.
>
> and don't forget fgetcsv()

Thanks! Good one. I didn't forget it, I just didn't know about it. :-)

JM

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