Comments on: How to Import a Data File into MySQL via phpMyAdmin

By: axe

axe — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:58:37 +0000

Hi Rose,
Functions for importing data are designed for moving large amounts of data into databases or tables, so you basically have to know up front what database or table you want your new data to be in. Extending that idea to row-based data isn’t possible with import functions, but you could always use an HTML form to collect whatever info you want and then insert the data into the DB where it makes sense.
Make sense?

By: Rose Grabowski

Rose Grabowski — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:24:19 +0000

How about if I want to import data into specific rows? Is there a way to have the upload search for the row that has particular data in a field and then append the data from the CSV file?

Thanks!

By: axe

axe — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:41:19 +0000

Hi Helen,
If you want to import only certain columns of the .csv file into your DB table, check out the format-specific options listed in the section for importing CSV files. For “columns” list the names of the columns that you want to import, in a comma-separated list.

Give it a whirl and let us know how you make out!

By: Helen

Helen — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:10:24 +0000

Great tutorial but doesn’t quite meet my needs. Is it possible to import from a .csv file into specific fields in an existing table? I have a table with 4 fields and a .csv file with data for only 2 of those fields. I can’t figure out how to tell phpMyAdmin to import only into those 2 fields. Is it possible?

By: axe

axe — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:27:44 +0000

You’re welcome, Shoaib!

By: Shoaib

Shoaib — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 07:26:54 +0000

helped me alot

thanks for sharing

By: axe

axe — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 15:51:55 +0000

You’re very welcome, nandy!

By: nandy

nandy — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 09:44:12 +0000

Thank you! you’re such a great help for me.. Thanks a lot.

By: axe

axe — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:15:50 +0000

Hey Elf,
I can’t help out too much with your query, but this seems like a great place to start: ZAck PReble.

Let us know how you do. Good luck!

By: RottenElf

RottenElf — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 05:15:16 +0000

LizzyFin,

Hopefully you can help me. Explaining this may be a pain for ya, but I would really appreciate any assistance that you may be able to give me.

Here is my scenario.

-I am trying to import a csv file into phpmyadmin.
-The MySQL database is for WordPress.
-The .csv file is individual posts.
-Each post has multiple custom fields.
-Some of the fields include content such as (“) and (,)

My issues are as follows:

1) I am trying to figure out how to do the import into the wp_post table, even though there is no “field” within THAT table that is “category”, nor are the “custom field” fields. They are apparently within different tables.
2) I cannot import the posts without the custom fields, as they are extremely valuable to the posts themselves.
3) Two of the custom fields are hyperlinks that reference specific images within the database
4) One of the custom fields is a hyperlink to another page within the site.

Any ideas? Even a point in the right direction would help out a lot. I’m just getting starting with databases, and would love a little nudge in the proper direction. I don’t want to completely mess up the website before I even get it to launch. Thanks in advance.