I am new to php keep getting an error when trying to load the file into a database table, the error is
File is not writable, check permissions. Found a total of 16168 records in this csv file.
I have changed the file permissions on the file to 777 so all writable as far as im aware
Buy and Sell Things$databasehost = “db461805060.db.1and1.com”;
$databasename = “db461805060”;
$databasetable = “postcode”;
$databaseusername =“dbo461805060”;
$databasepassword = “buy4nds3llth1ngs”;
$fieldseparator = “,”;
$lineseparator = “\n”;
$csvfile = “filename.csv”;
//
/* Would you like to add an ampty field at the beginning of these records?
/* This is useful if you have a table with the first field being an auto_increment integer
/* and the csv file does not have such as empty field before the records.
/* Set 1 for yes and 0 for no. ATTENTION: don’t set to 1 if you are not sure.
/* This can dump data in the wrong fields if this extra field does not exist in the table
//
$addauto = 0;
/********************************/
/* Would you like to save the mysql queries in a file? If yes set $save to 1.
/* Permission on the file should be set to 777. Either upload a sample file through ftp and
/* change the permissions, or execute at the prompt: touch output.sql && chmod 777 output.sql
//
$save = 1;
$outputfile = “output.sql”;
//
if (!file_exists($csvfile)) {
echo “File not found. Make sure you specified the correct path.\n”;
exit;
}
$file = fopen($csvfile,“r”);
if (!$file) {
echo “Error opening data file.\n”;
exit;
}
$size = filesize($csvfile);
if (!$size) {
echo “File is empty.\n”;
exit;
}
$csvcontent = fread($file,$size);
fclose($file);
$con = @mysql_connect($databasehost,$databaseusername,$databasepassword) or die(mysql_error());
@mysql_select_db($databasename) or die(mysql_error());
// Create table
//$sql1 = “CREATE TABLE Postcode
//(
//Postcode INT NOT NULL,
//Suburb VARCHAR(100),
//State VARCHAR(100),
//dc VARCHAR(100),
//type VARCHAR(100),
//latitude float,
//longtitude float,
//geogcol geometry
//)”;
// Execute query
//if (@mysql_query($sql1))
//{
//echo “Table postcode created successfully”;
// }
//else
//{
//echo "Error creating postcode table: " . mysql_error();
//}
//execute the SQL query and return records
$result = @mysql_query(“SELECT postcode,suburb,longtitude from postcode”);
//fetch tha data from the database
while ($row = @mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
echo “Postcode:”.$row{‘postcode’}." suburb:".$row{‘suburb’}.“longtitude: “. //display the results
$row{‘longtitude’}.”
”;
}
$sql2 = “SHOW TABLES FROM $databasename”;
$result = @mysql_query($sql2);
if (!$result) {
echo “DB Error, could not list tables\n”;
echo 'MySQL Error: ’ . @mysql_error();
exit;
}
while ($row = @mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
echo “Table: {$row[0]}\n”;
}
//@mysql_free_result($result);
$lines = 0;
$queries = “”;
$linearray = array();
foreach(split($lineseparator,$csvcontent) as $line) {
$lines++;
$line = trim($line," \t");
$line = str_replace("\r","",$line);
/************************************
This line escapes the special character. remove it if entries are already escaped in the csv file
************************************/
$line = str_replace("'","\'",$line);
/*************************************/
$linearray = explode($fieldseparator,$line);
$linemysql = implode("','",$linearray);
if($addauto)
$query = "insert into $databasetable values('','$linemysql');";
else
$query = "insert into $databasetable values('$linemysql');";
$queries .= $query . "\n";
@mysql_query($query);
}
@mysql_close($con);
if ($save) {
if (!is_writable($outputfile)) {
echo "File is not writable, check permissions.\n";
}
else {
$file2 = fopen($outputfile,"w");
if(!$file2) {
echo "Error writing to the output file.\n";
}
else {
fwrite($file2,$queries);
fclose($file2);
}
}
}
echo “Found a total of $lines records in this csv file.\n”;
?>