Question

When I do an import of data from a file, such as csv or text file, I would like to display on a summary page （table view) about what is going to be imported to the database, and user can select or deselect what will be imported into the database. I would like to find out what is the best way of temporary storing these data to be displayed onto the summary page?

To give a clearer understanding about what i am talking about, for example:

• I have a csv file that holds a list of products.
• I would do an importation to read the csv file and display onto a summary page with
  table view and checkboxes to select/deselect some of the data.
• After the selection, I would click the confirm button to store those checked data

So between the process of getting the csv data to the summary page for display, where should I store the data, in the database as a tbl_temp data and clean off when done, or just read directly from the csv file?

Thanks.

Answer 1

I would think an array would do the trick unless you think your environment is really unstable or, for user interface reasons, then just store to a temp file. Temp db table seems a bit much.