Re: CSV importer tool

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Leandro Dardini <ldardini@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I am going to write a PHP page to allow the client to upload a CSV file and > assign each column to one or more fields of a mysql table. Quite simple, > but I feel like I am reinventing the wheel... is it possible there is no > library to do it, maybe using AJAX or similar cute techniques? > > Leandro This has been asked a few times, I wrote up a how-to and posted it on my wiki: http://wiki.tamaratemple.com/Technology/UsingUploadedTempFilesToPopulateATableInPHP It's such a few actual lines of code, I wonder if no one thinks it's such a big deal to just write it over and over again. Basically it's handled pretty much entirely in SQL rather than PHP.