How to remove or avoid inserting column headers when importing a separated value file into a database using PHP?

Question

I have semicolon-separated .dat file and I want to read that file and store its contents into a database.

Structure of .dat file:

Answer 1

This is a common task done daily by DBAs. It can be done in mysql with the LOAD command. No need to use PHP.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/load-data.html

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'file.dat' 
INTO TABLE table_name
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ';' 
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n' 
(PARTYID, PARTYCODE, CONNECTIONID)
IGNORE 1 LINES;