Importing csv files into Mysql

Junior WebHelper Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 2

Hello from Sydney Very Happy

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I have got a website hosted by f2s.

I am unsuccesfully Confused

trying to import a csv file with the phpMyAdmin import tool.

I have contacted the f2s support to solve the problem and I received this explanation:

"The Mysql Admin tool currently has a security bug that effects uploading
from a file. So we have disabled it.

You will need to find another way round this problem like writing your
own php script."

Well ... I am not really an expert to write a php import script Crying or Very sad

. Is there anybody who can suggest me a tutorial or a URL where to get a script specifically prepared for the f2s server?

Thanks a LOT Laughing

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Fabio

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Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Would you consider installing your own copy of phpMyAdmin from phpwizards.net, and then using that?

4WebHelp Addict Joined: 07 Jan 2002 Posts: 1060

Wow, you got a reply, thats more than what I get!

Of course, the alternative answer is for them to do something useful for a change and upgrade PHPMyAdmin to something that is secure, but being F2S, you may as well rule this out.

I would bung a copy up over @ Freedom2Support.net, but I think the firewall would stop that would it not?

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Does F2S have a firewall which works "in that direction"? I thought all their firewall did was block requests to the outside Very Happy

. I may be wrong though...

Otherwise maybe someone who has space at F2S could volunteer to install phpMyAdmin for fatuzzo?

4WebHelp Addict Joined: 07 Jan 2002 Posts: 1060

I have some F2S Space, and I've just created a DB, and will test it tommorow both from my local phpmyadmin install and the one on this space.

If you give me 24 hours I will update you.

Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2003 11:52 am (21 years, 2 months ago)

Use LOAD INTO ... INFILE ... query

4WebHelp Addict Joined: 07 Jan 2002 Posts: 1060

Right. I have found a way to connect to the F2S Database servers through PHPMyAdmin from my webserver, and it works fine, but before I can put it live, I need to solve one minor problem.

I need to do is set up a phpmyadmin login page for all the visitors, therefore I need a mod, something like THIS :

http://www.f2s.net/db/login.php

Which the user then fills in, which in turn logs him/her into phpmyadmin according to the details they have filled in.

How would I do this? Any Ideas?!?

4WebHelp Addict Joined: 07 Jan 2002 Posts: 1060

Right, have worked out how to do this, by switching the authentication to cookie, and listing the servers in config.php, I get a login screen showing the following fields :

Language :
Username :
Password :

Server :

What I also need is one for a table, as in the site I linked to above, if I leave the table field blank in the config.php, the left bar is just simply blank and does not show up a list of DB's, is there any way I can specify the table on login as I can the username, password and server?

Thanks!

4WebHelp Addict Joined: 07 Jan 2002 Posts: 1060

Some Weird Firewall here, if I don't specify the table name in phpmyadmin's config file, it does not display the left hand frame, so a user can't select their db on login.. Sad

4WebHelp Addict Joined: 07 Jan 2002 Posts: 1060

Justin wrote:

Some Weird Firewall here, if I don't specify the table name in phpmyadmin's config file, it does not display the left hand frame, so a user can't select their db on login.. Sad

LOL - I found out why it did that, it was not a firewall problem, it was a timeout, have a guess how many databases are on server0038.freedom2surf.net? 1500(!!!)

Talk about seriously overloaded servers!!!

4WebHelp Addict Joined: 07 Jan 2002 Posts: 1060

Unfortunatley, on further investigation it appears that the information Freedom2Surf have supplied is is WRONG.

Freedom2Surf have not disabled uploading .csv files in phpmyadmin, what they have gone and done is disable the LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE command in mysql. So Basically, I'm afraid to say, as this is off, there is no way of uploading a .csv file at all.

F2S have disabled this command in mysql, making the whole process impossible. Complaints should be fired to chris@freedom2surf.net, make your feelings known.

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Seems like the typical "it doesn't work, so we'll just disable it. No matter how it's done, as long as it can't work" Sad

4WebHelp Addict Joined: 07 Jan 2002 Posts: 1060

Yeah, but whats the hell the point of turning it off in MySQL? Thats really stupid. All they need to do is upgrade phpmyadmin then turn it back on, upgrading phpmyadmin took me about 3 minutes max here, surely they could do that?!?

Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2003 2:37 am (21 years, 1 month ago)

There are a few PHP scripts which do CSV import without using "load data into" query, but instead read the file line by line and query the database with the "insert into" query

Junior WebHelper Joined: 14 Feb 2003 Posts: 2

Thanks a lot for your replies and time.

Could you please suggest some of these php scripts available?

Is CSV importer http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/18098.html one of these?

Thanks again

Fabio Very Happy