How'd I go about reading a tab delimited .txt file and then coding it so it puts each column of data(that is seperated with a tab) into a php variable.
for example....
505050 somedata moredata
and then, writing these variables to
$id
$somedata
$moredata
I read into fgetcsv and making an array although it seemed to make the whole line an array i need to split it into variables so that i can write it to individual columns in the MySQL database,
Can anyone give me any pointers?
Thanks so much...
A combination of fgetcsv() and list() will be the most efficient way to split this into named variables:
list($id, $somedata, $moredata) = fgetcsv($fp, 0, "\t");
However, you do not need to have them as named variables in order to insert them in MySQL, you can just use the raw array returned by fgetcsv():
$row = fgetcsv($fp, 0, "\t");
$query = "
INSERT INTO `tablename`
(`id`, `somedata`, `moredata`)
VALUES
('{$row[0]}', '{$row[1]}', '{$row[2]}')
";
Don't forget to escape the data before using it in a query ;-)
explode() will split a string. Try this:
list($id, $somedata, $moredata) = explode("\t", $string);
Where $string is the string you want to split. For more info about explode() and list(), just look up on php.net.
