On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Sergey wrote: } You can insert file data in DB first, using LOAD DATA INTO FILE, after it'll } be easy to manipulate this DB table with a help of php-script. Actually, I can't, as the CSV contains fields for two different tables. I may have explained it better here: I have a CVS file that has order header *and* line item info on each line, like: 1110,6/20/2005,Jan Doe,123 Main St,99990000,1,Book 1116,6/22/2005,Jim Smith,44 Here St,19191980,1,CD 1116,6/22/2005,Jim Smith,44 Here St,77736222,1,Tape The above is actually two orders - one with one line item, and the 2nd with two line items. I need to insert data from those lines into two tables: insert into order_header (o_num, date, name, addr) values ('1110','6/20/2005','Jan Doe','123 Main St'), ('1116','6/22/2005','Jim Smith','44 Here St'); insert into line_items (o_num, item_num, quan, desc, line_order) values ('1110','99990000','1','Book','1'), ('1116','19191980','1','CD','1'), ('1116','77736222','1','Tape','2'); Note the line_order field - it needs to increment per order for each line item added to the line_items table. To complicate matters a bit, I'm actually massaging the data before inserting [eg: splitting the name field from the CSV into two fields for the mysql db, formatting the date field for mysql, etc]. I'm currently doing this process via a form where a user uploads the CVS file [created with Excel, complete with the first row being made up the Excel table's header]. I currently do something like this: $fp = fopen("/tmp/"."$txt_file", "r"); while ($line = fgets($fp,1024)) { $i++ if ($i > 1) { // skip excel header row list ($o_num, $date, $name, $addr, $item_num, $quan, $desc) = csv_explode($line); // i can now print the vars, but i get duplicate header records when // there are multiple line items for a particular order. also, i // need to generate the line_order field for insertion into the // line_items table } } If I try and do any processing up where my comments are, well, the comments tell you what happen. I know I am reading this file line by line, so I can't compare order numbers [o_num] to group multiple line item orders together. So how do I go about doing that? Read the entire CSV into an array? How can that help? Any tips would be most appreciated! Thanks! /vjl/ p/s - FYI, cvs_explode() is: function csv_explode($str, $delim = ',', $qual = "\"") { $len = strlen($str); $inside = false; $word = ''; for ($i = 0; $i < $len; ++$i) { if ($str[$i]==$delim && !$inside) { $out[] = $word; $word = ''; } else if ($inside && $str[$i]==$qual && ($i<$len && $str[$i+1]==$qual)) { $word .= $qual; ++$i; } else if ($str[$i] == $qual) { $inside = !$inside; } else { $word .= $str[$i]; } } $out[] = $word; return $out; } -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php