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PHP/MySQL  "Import" CSV or even simple one column of data
Does anyone have a script that i can paste into a textarea either of the following to populate new rows (records) in a single given table:
-  a one field entry per input line (for populating only a single field in a single table)
- (or better) given a field list,  populate from a .csv formatted textarea entry

i just need to get some long lists of options populated.

maybe an html form where there's a textarea, and then a processing PHP script that does a FOREACH (?)
line by line to insert into   a given table
(i dont mind spoonfeeding the PHP code cusomtizations for each field and table; it's the textarea and FOREACH that i need help in)

thanks
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Question Asked By: willsherwood
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03.27.2008 at 09:59PM PDT, ID: 21228135
hi, this is the basis of what i have been using for about a year know, please dont remove the original credits though,

have fun
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<?php
/*/-------------------------------------------------------------------\
| Original Name : csvview.php |
| Author : Neil Maskell |
| Function : Reads a specified CSV file (Comma seperated) and |
| converts it into a readable HTML table. |
| |
| You could set up a html form with an input field |
| called filename. Then use csvview.php as the action. |
| |
| the reason cache is being disabled is because if you |
| update the csv file the cache doesnt realise and shows|
| an older version of the information. |
| |
| The CSV files should (and normally are) in the format:|
| field1,field2,filed3,filed4 |
| field1,field2,field3,field4 |
\-------------------------------------------------------------------/
 
*/
//
$filename = ""; // File to open. quote out this variable if you are using a form to link to this script.
 
 
/*
No cache!!
*/
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT"); // Date in the past
header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT");
// always modified
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate"); // HTTP/1.1
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);
header("Pragma: no-cache"); // HTTP/1.0
/*
End of No cache
*/
 
 
 
 
function viewlog($filename) {
$fp = fopen($filename,"r");
$file = fread($fp,65535);
$replaced = eregi_replace(",", "<td>", $file);
$replaced2 = eregi_replace("\n", "<tr><td>", $replaced);
$replaced3 = eregi_replace("\r", "<tr><td>", $replaced2);
fclose($fp);
 
return $replaced3;
}
echo "<html><head><base href=\"./\"><title>CSV File Viewer</title></head><body bgcolor=silver>";
// Start the table definition of your choice
echo "<table border=0 bordercolor=black cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5 width=100% style='font-size:10pt'>";
 
echo viewlog($filename);
echo "</table></body></html>";
exit;
?>
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03.27.2008 at 10:00PM PDT, ID: 21228139
Nb. i cant remember where i originally got this from sorry
 
03.28.2008 at 04:36AM PDT, ID: 21229402

Rank: Sage

Splitting on commas is not good enough; you need a proper csv parser, which php has in the fgetscv function. This should do the trick; you'll just have to amend login details and field names and quantities.
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<?php
 
if (isset($_REQUEST['submit'])) {
	if (array_key_exists('data', $_REQUEST)) {
		$tempfile = tempnam('/tmp', 'csv');
		file_put_contents($tempfile, $_REQUEST['data']); //Stick data in a temp file
		$fp = fopen($tempfile, 'r'); //Reopen it so we can use fgetcsv
		ini_set('auto_detect_line_endings', true);
		//Connect to DB
		$db = mysql_connect('localhost', 'id', 'pass');
		mysql_select_db('mydb', $db);
		$values = array();
		while (($row = fgetcsv($fp, 1000, ',')) !== false) {
			if (!is_null($row[0])) { //Skip blank lines
				$values[] = '('.mysql_real_escape_string($row[0]).','.mysql_real_escape_string($row[1]).','.mysql_real_escape_string($row[2]).')';
			}
		}
		if (count($values) > 0) {
			$query = "INSERT INTO mytable (field1, field2, field3) VALUES ";
			$query .= implode(',', $values);
			var_dump($query);
			mysql_query($query) || die(mysql_error());
		}
		fclose($fp);
		unlink($tempfile); //Delete temp file
	}
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
	<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
	<title>CSV</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="" method="post">
<textarea name="data" rows="20" cols="50">
</textarea><br />
<input name="submit" type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
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03.28.2008 at 04:37AM PDT, ID: 21229409

Rank: Sage

I left a var_dump() in there. You might want to delete that.
 
 
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