Batch insertion of data to MySQL database using php

Question

I have a thousands of data parsed from huge XML to be inserted into database table using PHP and MySQL. My Problem is it takes too long to insert all the data into table. Is

Answer 1

Yes, just do what you'd expect to do.

You should not try to do bulk insertion from a web application if you think you might hit a timeout etc. Instead drop the file somewhere and have a daemon or cron etc, pick it up and run a batch job (If running from cron, be sure that only one instance runs at once).