Re: CSV importer tool

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:09 PM, tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. Ah, sorry, in the time i was writing this our net went down, then came back up, and I saw your earlier replies.