If you are using Mysql you can try the LOAD DATA<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/load-data.html> syntax. Essentially you could upload the file using php and then generate a dynamic query which you can then pass to your mysql_query() function. something similar to: LOAD DATA INFILE '/path/to/uploaded/file.csv' INTO TABLE test FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' LINES STARTING BY 'xxx' ignore 0; see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/load-data.html for more I am sure there are other ways to load the data to various other DBMS On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 1:08 PM, joe mwirigi <joemwirigi@gmail.com> wrote:
The cleanest i would recomend is the excel converted to csv, albeit people can share their experience with just plain excel
an example in php would look like
<?
$file_handle = fopen("file.csv", "r"); $x=0; $fieldsStr == ""; while (!feof($file_handle) ) { $x+=1; $line_of_text = fgetcsv($file_handle, 1024); //no of columns $sz = sizeof($line_of_text); //the line of text is an array getting the size gives you the size of the array thus the no of columns you are dealing with // you can do the rest here } fclose($file_handle); ?>
that should sought you for csv, for actual excel you should consider http://phpexcel.codeplex.com/
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