> Does anyone have any hints on how to or where to look to find out how 
> to import a number of tab-delimited text files with some header info 
> that reside on a ftp server into a MySQL database using PHP?

the 'key' command is 'load data infile'. It is very flexible in
handling various delimited file formats.
 
> How about doing this on a daily basis, automagically?

well, a little perl script as a cron job? php script will do too.



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