php - How to insert data from text file in database one word per row

Question

Test.text

abc,def,ghi,jkl,...

Is there anyway possible to insert each one to each row in database?

1 abc
2 def
...

Any suggest?

Answer 1

Assuming the commas are always the separator for values, you don't even need PHP.

Check out the page http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/load-data.html

An example you can start with is

mysql> LOAD DATA INFILE 'C:\path\data.txt' INTO TABLE db2.my_table;

Answer 2

Look at the php file_get_contents(); function. http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php

Look at the php explode(); function. http://php.net/manual/en/function.explode.php

This will get your string into an array which you can then insert into your database.

You can execute a MySQL INSERT query using the mysqli_* functions in php. http://php.net/manual/en/mysqli.query.php

Answer 3

Depends on how big the Text.txt file is but if its small-ish then you can do it like:

<?php 
$text = file_get_contents('Test.txt');
$arrayOfTxt = explode(',',$text);

foreach($arrayOfTxt as $value){
    //Insert trim($value)
}
?>

Answer 4

If I'm not wrong, you can do that with explode

$file = file_get_contents('file.txt');
$var = explode(",", $file);

The $var variable will be a array containing, in this case, 4 positions(0,1,2, 3) with this('abc','def','ghi','jkl').

No you can do a foreach inserting the values on your table:

foreach($var as $x)
{
//YOUR INSERT GOES HERE. PASSING THE $x TO YOUR QUERY
}

Just complementing Breland answer, you could also do this directly with MySQL like this?

LOAD DATA INFILE '/test.txt' INTO TABLE test TERMINATED BY ','

And if necessary, you can add this: LINES STARTING BY 'xxx' to define from where the insert will begin. It is useful in case you want to avoid some lines on your file.

Answer 5

$file = fopen('test.txt', 'r');   
$csv_array = fgetcsv($file);   
foreach ($csv_array as $csv_data){
            //Do your insertion code here.

 }