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rick888 on July 23, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to migrate Flat Text File into MySQL?

you could upload the file to your server and do a mysql_import (I assume it's tab/comma delimited).

PHP can call system commands, so you could do system("Mysql import ...(file)...").

more info about the command here: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysqlimport.html

zeroxsys on July 23, 2011 [–]

Yes, I am familiar with that, thank you @rick888.

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