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I’m looking to create an easy way for a user to create a table, and upload it to the server using ftp. On the server side, I’d like to query this table like an SQL-like query.
As I’d like the user to edit this in something like OO Calc, or MS Excel, would csv files be the best/fastest to parse? Is doing a fgetcsv a good way? Could you suggest any alternatives?
Your best bet is to allow users to upload a CSV file with the first line containing field names (and maybe field types (i.e. int, varchar, etc)). Then you can parse it and validate it for valid/malicious data. If it passes inspection then create a database table escaping all relevant data from which you then can query from.
This way not only do you validate the data first, which is always a good idea, but you control everything like the naming of tables, etc, which helps to keep your data out of malicious hands.