Question

I am new to MySQL and PHP(as you can probably tell) and I was wondering if anybody knew an easy way to import a CSV file into a MySQL table.

‘There are any number of ways to input csv into mysql depending in what kind of access you have, if you can use the mysql client directly there is a command to load delimited data, something like that could basically be entered directly in cron and keep itself up to date. Otherwise there are various php scripts to do that sort of thing.’

That is something a friend told me to do, is that the easiest/best way to do it? If it is would someone mind explaining it to me?

Thank you

Answer 1

here’s the step-by-step to extend Mrgreen’s answer :

1. install phpmyadmin
2. choose your database
3. choose your table
4. ‘Import’
5. select your CSV file
6. set ‘Format of imported file’ to CSV