Import a CSV file into a MySQL database example.
<?php
//
// Import CSV into MySQL
//
// https://css-tricks.com/snippets/php/import-csv-into-mysql/
//
$databasehost = 'localhost';
$databasename = 'test';
$databasetable = 'sample';
$databaseusername = 'test';
$databasepassword = '';
$fieldseparator = ',';
$lineseparator = "\n";
$csvfile = 'filename.csv';
/********************************/
/* Would you like to add an ampty field at the beginning of these records?
/* This is useful if you have a table with the first field being an auto_increment integer
/* and the csv file does not have such as empty field before the records.
/* Set 1 for yes and 0 for no. ATTENTION: don't set to 1 if you are not sure.
/* This can dump data in the wrong fields if this extra field does not exist in the table
/********************************/
$addauto = 0;
/********************************/
/* Would you like to save the mysql queries in a file? If yes set $save to 1.
/* Permission on the file should be set to 777. Either upload a sample file through ftp and
/* change the permissions, or execute at the prompt: touch output.sql && chmod 777 output.sql
/********************************/
$save = 1;
$outputfile = 'output.sql';
/********************************/
if (!file_exists($csvfile)) {
echo "File not found. Make sure you specified the correct path.\n";
exit;
}
$file = fopen($csvfile, 'r');
if (!$file) {
echo "Error opening data file.\n";
exit;
}
$size = filesize($csvfile);
if (!$size) {
echo "File is empty.\n";
exit;
}
$csvcontent = fread($file, $size);
fclose($file);
$con = @mysql_connect($databasehost, $databaseusername, $databasepassword) or die(mysql_error());
@mysql_select_db($databasename) or die(mysql_error());
$lines = 0;
$queries = '';
$linearray = array();
foreach (split($lineseparator, $csvcontent) as $line) {
++$lines;
$line = trim($line, " \t");
$line = str_replace("\r", '', $line);
/************************************
This line escapes the special character. remove it if entries are already escaped in the csv file
************************************/
$line = str_replace("'", "\'", $line);
/*************************************/
$linearray = explode($fieldseparator, $line);
$linemysql = implode("','", $linearray);
if ($addauto) {
$query = "insert into $databasetable values('','$linemysql');";
} else {
$query = "insert into $databasetable values('$linemysql');";
}
$queries .= $query."\n";
@mysql_query($query);
}
@mysql_close($con);
if ($save) {
if (!is_writable($outputfile)) {
echo "File is not writable, check permissions.\n";
} else {
$file2 = fopen($outputfile, 'w');
if (!$file2) {
echo "Error writing to the output file.\n";
} else {
fwrite($file2, $queries);
fclose($file2);
}
}
}
echo "Found a total of $lines records in this csv file.\n";