You wrote: >Suppose I wanted to upload a lot of files (1000 or so) to MySQL... sort of >like FTP-ing files to another server's directory... Is there a way to get >them all into MySQL like that? Uploading to a database seems much different >than uploading to a server... >Next, suppose I just FTP-ed a bunch of files to a directory on my server, >and then I wanted to catalog all the links in a MySQL database table... Is >there a way to get all those links into the database without having to >manually insert them one at a time? You're going to need some script, in which case you've got one of three routes: 1. LOAD DATA mysql command, (see manual section 3.2.3 for details). 2. A program using one of the API's, (I'm doing something vaguely similar to what you want, and I'm using a C program). 3. PHP and a web page, (i.e. "click this button to upload these files")?
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