On 26 October 2010 14:52, Ethan Rosenberg <eth...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> At 02:56 PM 10/24/2010, Andrés G. Montañez wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ethan,
>>
>> fist you need to read the file, you could use the file() function
>> which reads the file as an array, being each line an element;
>> the you have to navigate the array and exploding the lines into an array:
>>
>> $data = file('myfile.txt');
>>
>> foreach ($data AS $row) {
>> $row = explode("\n", trim($row));
>> var_dump($row);
>> }
>>
>> And there you go.
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>> On 24 October 2010 16:46, Ethan Rosenberg <eth...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> > Dear list -
>> >
>> > Thanks for all your help.
>> >
>> > I have a tab delimited file which I wish to import into a data base. Â
>> > In
>> > MySQL I can use the LOAD DATA command. Â As far as I know, that command
>> > cannot be used in PHP as a mysqli_query. Â As I understand, I have to
>> > parse
>> > the file and use the INSERT command.
>> >
>> > How do I do it? Â Code samples, please.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > Ethan
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>>
>>
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>> Andrés G. Montañez
>> Zend Certified Engineer
>> Montevideo - Uruguay
>
> ++++++++
> Andres -
>
> Sorry for the delay.
>
> Thanks. With what you and Jayson sent, it works beautifully.
>
> Ethan
>
>
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If you need to break the tab file apart then fgetcsv() is probably
going to help.
Just use "\t" for the $delimiter.
Pretty much.
But that's assuming you aren't using a mysql tool to import the data
directly. (I do a BULK INSERT in MS SQL).
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