Question

I need a php script to read a .txt file.

The content of the text file are like this:

data.txt

145|Joe Blogs|17/03/1954
986|Jim Smith|12/01/1976
234|Paul Jones|19/07/1923
098|James Smith|12/09/1998
234|Carl Jones|01/01/1925

These would then get stored into a database like this

**DataID |Name |DOB **

234    |Carl Jones|01/01/1925

I would be so grateful if someone could give me script to achieve this.

Update:

<?
$handle = @fopen("data.txt", "r");
$conn = mysql_connect("localhost","username","password"); 
mysql_select_db("mydatabase",$conn);
while (!feof($handle)) // Loop til end of file.
{
$buffer = fgets($handle, 4096);
 // Read a line.
list($a,$b,$c)=explode("|",$buffer);
//Separate string by the means of |
echo $a."-".$b."-".$c."<br>";
$sql = "INSERT INTO data_table (iddata, name, age) VALUES('".$a."','".$b."',".$c.")";   
mysql_query($sql,$conn) or die(mysql_error());
}
?>

get the following error error in your SQL syntax; …for the right syntax to use near ‘)’ at line 1

Answer 1

open txt file using fopen:

$handle = @fopen("xyz.txt", "r"); //read line one by one
$values='';

while (!feof($handle)) // Loop til end of file.
{
    $buffer = fgets($handle, 4096); // Read a line.
    list($a,$b,$c)=explode("|",$buffer);//Separate string by the means of |
    //values.=($a,$b,$c);// save values and use insert query at last or

    // use mysql insert query here
}

THATS IT