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Asked: 2026-05-26T20:42:22+00:00

I have the following code for uploading a csv file to a mysql database.

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I have the following code for uploading a csv file to a mysql database. Its working just fine, but if the csv file contains a heading for each column its getting uploaded in the first row of the table. I want to remove the first row of the csv file while getting stored in the database. How can i do that ?

<?php  

    //connect to the database 
    $connect = mysql_connect("localhost","root",""); 
    mysql_select_db("crm",$connect); //select the table 
    // 

    if ($_FILES[csv][size] > 0) { 

        //get the csv file 
        $file = $_FILES[csv][tmp_name]; 
        $handle = fopen($file,"r"); 

        //loop through the csv file and insert into database 
        do { 
            if ($data[0]) { 
                mysql_query("INSERT INTO lead (name, lead_value, status) VALUES 
                    ( 
                        '".addslashes($data[0])."', 
                        '".addslashes($data[1])."', 
                        '".addslashes($data[2])."' 
                    ) 
                "); 
            } 
        } while ($data = fgetcsv($handle,1000,",","'")); 
        // 

        //redirect 
        header('Location: import.php?success=1'); die; 

    } 

    ?> 

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> 
    <head> 
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> 
    <title>Import a CSV File with PHP & MySQL</title> 
    </head> 

    <body> 

    <?php if (!empty($_GET[success])) { echo "<b>Your file has been imported.</b><br><br>"; } //generic success notice ?> 

    <form action="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="form1" id="form1"> 
      Choose your file: <br /> 
      <input name="csv" type="file" id="csv" /> 
      <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" /> 
    </form> 

    </body> 
    </html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    example code from what I’m using, and it should work because I’m using it in production environment 

    $handle = fopen("stuff.csv","r");

/* assuming that first row has collumns names */
$query = "INSERT INTO table(";
$cols = fgetcsv($handle,100000,';','"');
$query .= implode(", ",$cols).") VALUES";

$values = "";

    /* cycle through each row and build mysql insert query */
while($data = fgetcsv($handle,100000,';','"')) {
    $values .= " ( ";

    foreach($data as $text) {

        $values .= "'".$text."', ";

    }

    $values = substr($values,0,-2);

    $values .= "), ";

}

    /* remove last 2 chars */

$values = substr($values,0,-2);

$query .= $values;

echo $query;

fclose($handle);

    Mind the fact that this script will return the mysql query… not execute it, so alter it to your needs.

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