Hi Ethan, fist you need to read the file, you could use the file() function which reads the file as an array, being each line an element; the you have to navigate the array and exploding the lines into an array:
$data = file('myfile.txt'); foreach ($data AS $row) { $row = explode("\n", trim($row)); var_dump($row); } And there you go. Cheers. On 24 October 2010 16:46, Ethan Rosenberg <eth...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Dear list - > > Thanks for all your help. > > I have a tab delimited file which I wish to import into a data base. In > MySQL I can use the LOAD DATA command. As far as I know, that command > cannot be used in PHP as a mysqli_query. As I understand, I have to parse > the file and use the INSERT command. > > How do I do it? Code samples, please. > > Thanks. > > Ethan > > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Andrés G. Montañez Zend Certified Engineer Montevideo - Uruguay -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php