Question

Automatically build mySql table upon a CSV file upload.

I have a admin section where admin can upload CSV files with different column count and different column name.

which it should then build a mySql table in the db which will read the first line and create the columns and then import the data accordingly.

I am aware of a similar issue, but this is different because of the following specs.

• The name of the Table should be the name of the file (minus the extension [.csv])
• each csv file can be diffrent
• Should build a table with number of columns and names from the CSV file
• add the the data from the second line and on

Here is a design sketch

Maybe there are known frameworks that makes this easy.
Thanks.

Answer 1

http://bytes.com/topic/mysql/answers/746696-create-mysql-table-field-headings-line-csv-file has a good example of how to do this.

The second example should put you on the right track, there isn’t some automatic way to do it so your going to need to do a lil programming but it shouldn’t be too hard once you implement that code as a starting point.