Question

I am trying to upload a .csv file and than save each row to a mysql db. So for each row in the .csv file, I would like to create a row in my mysql db. Excuse my english, but I hope you get what I mean.

I have got so far, that i am able to get the data from the first row:

$path   = $targetPath;
$row    = 1;

if (($handle = fopen($path, "r")) !== FALSE) {

    while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ";")) !== FALSE) {

        $row++;
        $dataEntries[] = $data ;

    }

    fclose($handle);

} else{

    echo("There has been an error parsing ".$csvname);

}

//Everything seems to be okay, we can save it
foreach($dataEntries as $line){

    $oName  = $line[0];
    $oUrl   = $line[1];
    $oType  = $line[2];
    $oDescr = $line[3];

    //If there is just one row in the csv file, Output: "string"
    //If there are more rows, than the output is "stringstring1string2"
    echo($oName);

}

UPDATE

Just to let every1 know: @Greg P ´s solution worked great, but I had to add LOCAL to the infile command, so that I could access the csv file that was uploaded to my server:

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '$targetPath' INTO TABLE tableName FIELDS TERMINATED BY ';' (name,url,type,descr)

Answer 1

Why not use LOAD DATA INFILE, something like this:

LOAD DATA INFILE 'filename.csv' 
INTO TABLE filenames
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' 
(Name, Url, Type, Descr)