Insert a plain text list to mysql table - php

Question

I have a very long list in plain text which I need to insert into a table my database. Do I have to manually input each line of my plain text document or is there a way to insert long lists into independent rows in a table using a query?
I have a table with 2 columns, id and club_name, club_name is the list which is plain text in a notepad document.

Answer 1

You can use LOAD DATA, e.g.:
mysql> LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '/path/pet.txt' INTO TABLE pet
-> LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n';
You can also use the multi-row insert syntax (if you are using InnoDB tables), like this:
INSERT INTO yourtable VALUES (1,2), (5,5), ...

Answer 2

You can load data into mysql using the LOAD DATA INFILE command.
Here is the documentation...
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/load-data.html

Answer 3

$file = file("content.txt"); //read file line by line
foreach ($file as $val) {
if (trim($val) != '') { //ignore empty lines
mysql_query("INSERT INTO xxx SET club='" . $val . "'");
}
}

Answer 4

Here's a quick PDO based example, but MySQL's LOAD DATA INFILE command may be a much better option if you don't need to manipulate the source data (trim, normalise etc).
<?php
$conn = new PDO($dsn, $username, $password);
$stmt = $conn->prepare('INSERT INTO table VALUES (NULL, ?)');
foreach(file('list.txt') as $club) {
$stmt->execute(array($club));
}
Anthony.

Answer 5

Here is how to do it with php, mysqli and a text file that has each entry on a single line:
<?php
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "user";
$password = "pass";
$dbname = "db";
// Create connection
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);
// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}
$file = file("list.txt"); //read file line by line
foreach ($file as $val) {
if (trim($val) != '') { //ignore empty lines
$sql = "INSERT INTO `db`.`table` (`column`) VALUES ('$val');";
if ($conn->query($sql) === TRUE) {
echo "New record created successfully";
} else {
echo "Error: " . $sql . "<br>" . $conn->error;
}
}
}
?>
This is based off of DanFromGermany's answer but updated to use mysqli.

Answer 6

Insert the whole notepad content to a column of type "text"