php to import csv to postgres

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#1SunWuKung
Balazs.Klein@axelero.hu

I am not sure I should be posting this here, but I guess you are the
people most likely be able to answer this.

I have been looking for a user friendly php script to import csv into
Postgres (set separator, preview data, match columns - or any of these).
I found many for MySQL but none that would work with Postgres.

Maybe somebody could direct me to such a script.

Thank you for the help.
Balázs

#2Chris
dmagick@gmail.com
In reply to: SunWuKung (#1)
Re: php to import csv to postgres

SunWuKung wrote:

I am not sure I should be posting this here, but I guess you are the
people most likely be able to answer this.

I have been looking for a user friendly php script to import csv into
Postgres (set separator, preview data, match columns - or any of these).
I found many for MySQL but none that would work with Postgres.

Maybe somebody could direct me to such a script.

Copy might be able to do it for you:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-copy.html

use ',' as the delimiter.

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#3Scott Marlowe
smarlowe@g2switchworks.com
In reply to: Chris (#2)
Re: php to import csv to postgres

On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 17:27, Chris wrote:

SunWuKung wrote:

I am not sure I should be posting this here, but I guess you are the
people most likely be able to answer this.

I have been looking for a user friendly php script to import csv into
Postgres (set separator, preview data, match columns - or any of these).
I found many for MySQL but none that would work with Postgres.

Maybe somebody could direct me to such a script.

Copy might be able to do it for you:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-copy.html

use ',' as the delimiter.

And, if you're stuck with an older version of PostgreSQL that can't do
cvs, you should look up this command:

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.fgetcsv.php

tres cool if you've got a csv file to import, you just read in each line
with that, and it gives you a numerically indexed array of each field,
ready to go. Quite useful, even for other stuff. And yes, it does
understand things like commas in the middle of the field and all that.