Laravel Raw Bulk insert - php

Question

I wrote a function in a Controller used in the Laravel Framework. The function gets the file path of an *.csv file and then inserts all elements of this *.csv file with a raw bulk insert statement into the database. The problem is that the elements are not put in the database table when the function is executed. I do not get any errors, too. When I execute the Query in SQL Server Manager it inserts the elements without problems. What am I doing wrong and is there a better way to bulk insert the elements of an csv file to the database?
Here is the code for the function:
public static function bulkInsertCSV($filePath){
$sql = "use [testDatabase] BULK INSERT [dbo].[testTable]
FROM '" . $filePath . "' WITH (FIELDTERMINATOR = ';',"
. "ROWTERMINATOR = '\\n' );";
//DB::statement($sql);
DB::statement(DB::raw($sql));
}
Best regards,
Yalcin

Answer 1

I like using the laravel-excel library for dealing with my CSV files, it makes it a bit easier to manage and feels more "laravel-y" to me.
The laravel/excel lbirary: http://www.maatwebsite.nl/laravel-excel/docs/getting-started#installation library.
What you'd then do is somewhat simple:
Excel::filter('chunk')->load($filePath)->chunk(500, function($rows){
foreach($rows as $row) {
$data = collect([]);
foreach(App\TestTable::getFillable() as $fillable ) {
if (isset($row[$fillable])) {
$data->put($fillable, $row[$fillable]);
}
}
App\TestTable::create($data->toArray());
}
});
Notes:
Using chunk ensures we don't run out of memory.
The getFillable() methods assumes you defined the protected $fillable = []; properties on your TestTable model.
The column names from your testTable match the column names from your csvfile.
Hopefully this helps you.