Import information from file to mysql with php - php

Question

How can i import information from a file (like below) to my mysql database by a php file?
I was thinking by open a file, insert a row into a variabele and check every line for an = mark and insert the information into array's by checking the tag bevore the =.
Is this the right way or are there better ways.
Example file:
# Disc length: 926 seconds
# Revision: 0
# Processed by: cddbd v1.5PL3 Copyright (c) Steve Scherf et al.
# Submitted via: audiograbber 1.83.01
DISCID=00039c14
DTITLE=3M Littmann Stethoscope Edition / 20 Beispiele zur Herz- und Lungenausku
DTITLE=ltation
DYEAR=1997
DGENRE=Medizin
TTITLE0=Normale Herztöne
TTITLE1=Dritter Herzton (physiologisch)
TTITLE2=Vierter Herzton
TTITLE3=Aortenklappenstenose
TTITLE4=Mitralklappeninsuffizienz
TTITLE5=Mittelsystolischer Klick
TTITLE6=Ventrikelseptum-Defekt
TTITLE7=Atriumseptum-Defekt
TTITLE8=Mitralklappenstenose
TTITLE9=Aortenklappeninsuffizienz
TTITLE10=normales tracheales Atemgeräusch
TTITLE11=normales vesikuläres Atemgeräusch
TTITLE12=feine Krepitation mit leichter bronchialer Atmung
TTITLE13=rauhe Krepitation
TTITLE14=bronchiale Atmung
TTITLE15=Stridor beim Einatmen
TTITLE16=Rhonchus
TTITLE17=pfeifender Rhonchus (Keuchatmen)
TTITLE18=feine Krepitation (Knisterrasseln)
TTITLE19=pleurales Reibungsgeräusch
EXTD=
EXTT0=
EXTT1=
EXTT2=
EXTT3=
EXTT4=
EXTT5=
EXTT6=
EXTT7=
EXTT8=
EXTT9=
EXTT10=
EXTT11=
EXTT12=
EXTT13=
EXTT14=
EXTT15=
EXTT16=
EXTT17=
EXTT18=
EXTT19=
PLAYORDER=

Answer 1

Try this:
$settingArray = array();
$text = file('file.txt');
foreach($text as $line){
$line = str_replace(array("\r", "\n"), '', $line);
if(substr($line, 0, 1) != '#' && !empty($line)){
$key = substr($line, 0, strpos($line, "="));
$value = substr($line, strpos($line, "=") + 1);
$value = substr($value, 0, strpos($value, "#") != 0 ? strpos($value, "#") : strlen($value)); //removes everything behind a # sign
$settingArray[$key] = $value;
}
}
var_dump($settingArray);
/*this will print:
array (size=46)
'DISCID' => string '00039c14' (length=8)
'DTITLE' => string 'ltation' (length=7)
'DYEAR' => string '1997' (length=4)
'DGENRE' => string 'Medizin' (length=7)
'TTITLE0' => string 'Normale Herztöne ' (length=17)
'TTITLE1' => string 'Dritter Herzton (physiologisch)' (length=31)
'TTITLE2' => string 'Vierter Herzton' (length=15)
'TTITLE3' => string 'Aortenklappenstenose' (length=20)
'TTITLE4' => string 'Mitralklappeninsuffizienz' (length=25)
'TTITLE5' => string 'Mittelsystolischer Klick' (length=24)
'TTITLE6' => string 'Ventrikelseptum-Defekt' (length=22)
'TTITLE7' => string 'Atriumseptum-Defekt' (length=19)
'TTITLE8' => string 'Mitralklappenstenose' (length=20)
'TTITLE9' => string 'Aortenklappeninsuffizienz' (length=25)
'TTITLE10' => string 'normales tracheales Atemgeräusch' (length=32)
'TTITLE11' => string 'normales vesikuläres Atemgeräusch' (length=33)
'TTITLE12' => string 'feine Krepitation mit leichter bronchialer Atmung' (length=49)
'TTITLE13' => string 'rauhe Krepitation' (length=17)
'TTITLE14' => string 'bronchiale Atmung' (length=17)
'TTITLE15' => string 'Stridor beim Einatmen' (length=21)
'TTITLE16' => string 'Rhonchus' (length=8)
'TTITLE17' => string 'pfeifender Rhonchus (Keuchatmen)' (length=32)
'TTITLE18' => string 'feine Krepitation (Knisterrasseln)' (length=34)
'TTITLE19' => string 'pleurales Reibungsgeräusch' (length=26)
'EXTD' => boolean false
'EXTT0' => boolean false
'EXTT1' => boolean false
'EXTT2' => boolean false
'EXTT3' => boolean false
'EXTT4' => boolean false
'EXTT5' => boolean false
'EXTT6' => boolean false
'EXTT7' => boolean false
'EXTT8' => boolean false
'EXTT9' => boolean false
'EXTT10' => boolean false
'EXTT11' => boolean false
'EXTT12' => boolean false
'EXTT13' => boolean false
'EXTT14' => boolean false
'EXTT15' => boolean false
'EXTT16' => boolean false
'EXTT17' => boolean false
'EXTT18' => boolean false
'EXTT19' => boolean false
'PLAYORDER' => boolean false*/

Answer 2

You should simple ignore lines starting with # and then in all other lines (not-empty) find first occurrence of = sign and using susbtr (or mb_substr) you will get columns and columns values.
EDIT
Someone suggest it's INI file however in fact it isn't so you cannot use parse_ini_file function. First thing is that comments here start with '#` what would generate Deprecated warning (ini PHP 5.5.12) and in addition because no quotes were used you will get warning :
Warning: syntax error, unexpected '(' in test.ini on line 12
and this function will return false
EDIT2
I would do it this way:
<?php
$data = array();
$lines = file('test.ini');
mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');
foreach($lines as $line){
$line = trim($line);
if ($line == '' || mb_substr($line,0,1) == '#') {
continue;
}
$pos = mb_strpos($line, '=');
if ($pos == false) { // == not ===
continue;
}
$data[mb_substr($line,0,$pos)] = mb_substr($line, $pos + 1);
}
var_dump($data);
You need to trim each line first and remove empty lines and lines starting with # as I said before, then you check for occurrence of =. If it's not found or at 0 position simple you need to ignore this line, all other lines are placed into $data array