Save CSV files into mysql database

Question

I have a lot of csv files in a directory. With these files, I have to write a script that put their content in the right fields and tables of my database. I am almost beginn

Answer 1

MySQL provides a wonderful feature that allows you to import a CSV file directly, in a single query.

The SQL command you're looking for is LOAD DATA INFILE

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

Quick example:

LOAD DATA INFILE 'fileName'
 INTO TABLE tableName
 FIELDS TERMINATED BY '|' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
 LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
(
field1,
field2,
field3,
@variable1,
@variable2,
etc
)
set
(
field4 = concat(@variable1,@variable2)
);

That's a fairly basic example, but it covers most of what you'd want. The manual page gives full details of how to do some very complex stuff with it.

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

after

foreach ($row as $field) {
echo $field . '<br />'; 

You need to parse the result after ; like:

$pieces = explode(";", $field);

and then insert every piece into the database

$sql = ' INSERT INTO X VALUES ("'.$pieces[0].'","'.$pieces[1].'","'.$pieces[2].'","'.$pieces[3].'","'.$pieces[4].'")';
mysql_query($sql, $conn);

Answer 3

Also mysqlimport can be used

private function runImport($host, $username, $password, $schema, $csvFilePath) {
    $output = array();
    $cmd = "/usr/bin/mysqlimport --host=$host";
    $cmd .= ' --fields-terminated-by=\',\'  --fields-optionally-enclosed-by=\'"\' ';
    $cmd .= ' --user=' . $username . ' --password='. $password;
    $cmd .= " $schema $csvFilePath";

    exec($cmd, $output, $retVal);

    foreach ($output as $line) {
       echo "$line\n";
    }

    echo "\n\nReturn code : $retVal";
}