Question

I’m fairly new to php and CakePHP, and I’m trying to execute the following code after uploading a text file (2kb):

$filefullname = $this->request->data['File']['file']['tmp_name'];
debug($filefullname);
move_uploaded_file($filefullname, WWW_ROOT.'tmp.txt');
$query = 'LOAD DATA LOW_PRIORITY INFILE "'.WWW_ROOT.'tmp.txt'.'" INTO TABLE agencies FIELDS TERMINATED BY "," OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY """" LINES TERMINATED BY "\r" IGNORE 1 LINES';
debug($query);
$this->Agency->query($query);

Though the file can be found, I get the following output:

'C:\Windows\Temp\phpB413.tmp'
'LOAD DATA LOW_PRIORITY INFILE "C:\Data\myphpapplication\app\webroot\tmp.txt" INTO TABLE agencies FIELDS TERMINATED BY "," OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY """" LINES TERMINATED BY "\r" IGNORE 1 LINES'
Error: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 29 File 'C:\Data\myphpapplication\app\webroot\tmp.txt' not found (Errcode: 13)
SQL Query: LOAD DATA LOW_PRIORITY INFILE "C:\Data\myphpapplication\app\webroot\tmp.txt" INTO TABLE agencies FIELDS TERMINATED BY "," OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY """" LINES TERMINATED BY "\r" IGNORE 1 LINES

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

Most likely the file is there, but MySQL doesn’t allow you to read files from that location. MySQL is fairly restrictive from where it reads LOAD DATA … INFILE, with good reasons. You may need to move your file first to a path that MySQL can read from, or change the settings for your MySQL server.

From the MySQL 5.1 manual:

Note that, in the non-LOCAL case, these rules mean that a file named
as ./myfile.txt is read from the server’s data directory, whereas the
file named as myfile.txt is read from the database directory of the
default database. […]

And:

Windows path names are specified using forward slashes rather than
backslashes. If you do use backslashes, you must double them.