LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE forbidden in… PHP

Question

I am trying to use LOAD DATA INFILE to insert some records into a table. Unfortunately, it\'s not working.

Here are some details

If I use this i

Answer 1

According to the MySQL manual MySQL must be compiled with --enable-local-infile. From a comment at that link:

You MUST have compiled PHP using the full path to MySQL, otherwise it will use it's internal handlers, which don't work with the "new" LOAD DATA.

--with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql (assuming your MySQL is located here)

You MUST start the MySQL daemon with the option '--local-infile=1'

Answer 2

If you use an Ubuntu server, you can try to install php5-mysqlnd :

sudo apt-get install php5-mysqlnd

Answer 3

Check docs http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-mysql.php.

Basically you need:

PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_LOCAL_INFILE => true

Set at instantiation.

Example:

    $conn = new \PDO("mysql:host=$server;dbname=$database;", "$user", "$password", array(
        PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_LOCAL_INFILE => true,
    ));

Answer 4

To resolve the same problem in PHP Symfony application, this flag needs to be enabled in the yml config file. Here is an example:

# Doctrine Configuration
doctrine:
    dbal:
        driver:   pdo_mysql
        options:
            !php/const PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_LOCAL_INFILE: true
        # Skip the rest

Also note how to reference PHP constant here in yml file, and this format is used for Symfony 3.4. For older version, check out Symfony doc.

Answer 5

I had exactly the same problem on a EC2 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS instance when accessing a MySQL on RDS: LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE... works fine on a mysql console but not from PHP. Accidentaly i found out that it worked fine on another almost identical machine that used MariaDB (a binary compatible drop in replacement for MySQL).

So i replaced the MySQL clients with the ones from MariaDB and it worked.

Answer 6

Easiest solution, that may work on some servers is to remove LOCAL like:

Original:LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE New/ It should be: LOAD DATA INFILE

Strange, but I have found this solution to work on my local machine, with xampp but it did not work on a live server with CentOS, so I'd to revert the code back and add 'LOCAL'.