insert multiple rows via a php array into mysql

Question

I'm passing a large dataset into a MySQL table via PHP using insert commands and I'm wondering if its possible to insert approximately 1000 rows at a time via a query other than appending each value on the end of a mile long string and then executing it. I am using the CodeIgniter framework so its functions are also available to me.

Answer 1

$query= array(); 
foreach( $your_data as $row ) {
    $query[] = '("'.mysql_real_escape_string($row['text']).'", '.$row['category_id'].')';
}
mysql_query('INSERT INTO table (text, category) VALUES '.implode(',', $query));

Answer 2

You could always use mysql's LOAD DATA:

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '/full/path/to/file/foo.csv' INTO TABLE `footable` FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n' 

to do bulk inserts rather than using a bunch of INSERT statements.

Answer 3

You can do it with several ways in codeigniter e.g.

First By loop

foreach($myarray as $row)
{
   $data = array("first"=>$row->first,"second"=>$row->sec);
   $this->db->insert('table_name',$data);
}

Second -- By insert batch

$data = array(
       array(
          'first' => $myarray[0]['first'] ,
          'second' => $myarray[0]['sec'],
        ),
       array(
          'first' => $myarray[1]['first'] ,
          'second' => $myarray[1]['sec'],
        ),
    );

    $this->db->insert_batch('table_name', $data);

Third way -- By multiple value pass

$sql = array(); 
foreach( $myarray as $row ) {
    $sql[] = '("'.mysql_real_escape_string($row['first']).'", '.$row['sec'].')';
}
mysql_query('INSERT INTO table (first, second) VALUES '.implode(',', $sql));

Answer 4

use this in codeigniter for multiple data insertion


 $data = array(
       array(
          'title' => 'My title' ,
          'name' => 'My Name' ,
          'date' => 'My date'
       ),
       array(
          'title' => 'Another title' ,
          'name' => 'Another Name' ,
          'date' => 'Another date'
       )
    );

    $this->db->insert_batch('mytable', $data); 

    // Produces: INSERT INTO mytable (title, name, date) VALUES ('My title', 'My name', 'My date'), ('Another title', 'Another name', 'Another date')

Answer 5

I have created a class that performs multi-line that is used as follows:

$pdo->beginTransaction();
$pmi = new PDOMultiLineInserter($pdo, "foo", array("a","b","c","e"), 10);
$pmi->insertRow($data);
// ....
$pmi->insertRow($data);
$pmi->purgeRemainingInserts();
$pdo->commit();

where the class is defined as follows:

class PDOMultiLineInserter {
    private $_purgeAtCount;
    private $_bigInsertQuery, $_singleInsertQuery;
    private $_currentlyInsertingRows  = array();
    private $_currentlyInsertingCount = 0;
    private $_numberOfFields;
    private $_error;
    private $_insertCount = 0;

    /**
     * Create a PDOMultiLine Insert object.
     *
     * @param PDO $pdo              The PDO connection
     * @param type $tableName       The table name
     * @param type $fieldsAsArray   An array of the fields being inserted
     * @param type $bigInsertCount  How many rows to collect before performing an insert.
     */
    function __construct(PDO $pdo, $tableName, $fieldsAsArray, $bigInsertCount = 100) {
        $this->_numberOfFields = count($fieldsAsArray);
        $insertIntoPortion = "REPLACE INTO `$tableName` (`".implode("`,`", $fieldsAsArray)."`) VALUES";
        $questionMarks  = " (?".str_repeat(",?", $this->_numberOfFields - 1).")";

        $this->_purgeAtCount = $bigInsertCount;
        $this->_bigInsertQuery    = $pdo->prepare($insertIntoPortion.$questionMarks.str_repeat(", ".$questionMarks, $bigInsertCount - 1));
        $this->_singleInsertQuery = $pdo->prepare($insertIntoPortion.$questionMarks);
    }

    function insertRow($rowData) {
        // @todo Compare speed
        // $this->_currentlyInsertingRows = array_merge($this->_currentlyInsertingRows, $rowData);
        foreach($rowData as $v) array_push($this->_currentlyInsertingRows, $v);
        //
        if (++$this->_currentlyInsertingCount == $this->_purgeAtCount) {
            if ($this->_bigInsertQuery->execute($this->_currentlyInsertingRows) === FALSE) {
                $this->_error = "Failed to perform a multi-insert (after {$this->_insertCount} inserts), the following errors occurred:".implode('<br/>', $this->_bigInsertQuery->errorInfo());
                return false;
            }
            $this->_insertCount++;

            $this->_currentlyInsertingCount = 0;
            $this->_currentlyInsertingRows = array();
        }
        return true;
    }

    function purgeRemainingInserts() {
        while ($this->_currentlyInsertingCount > 0) {
            $singleInsertData = array();
            // @todo Compare speed - http://www.evardsson.com/blog/2010/02/05/comparing-php-array_shift-to-array_pop/
            // for ($i = 0; $i < $this->_numberOfFields; $i++) $singleInsertData[] = array_pop($this->_currentlyInsertingRows); array_reverse($singleInsertData);
            for ($i = 0; $i < $this->_numberOfFields; $i++)     array_unshift($singleInsertData, array_pop($this->_currentlyInsertingRows));

            if ($this->_singleInsertQuery->execute($singleInsertData) === FALSE) {
                $this->_error = "Failed to perform a small-insert (whilst purging the remaining rows; the following errors occurred:".implode('<br/>', $this->_singleInsertQuery->errorInfo());
                return false;
            }
            $this->_currentlyInsertingCount--;
        }
    }

    public function getError() {
        return $this->_error;
    }
}

Answer 6

You could prepare the query for inserting one row using the mysqli_stmt class, and then iterate over the array of data. Something like:

$stmt =  $db->stmt_init();
$stmt->prepare("INSERT INTO mytbl (fld1, fld2, fld3, fld4) VALUES(?, ?, ?, ?)");
foreach($myarray as $row)
{
    $stmt->bind_param('idsb', $row['fld1'], $row['fld2'], $row['fld3'], $row['fld4']);
    $stmt->execute();
}
$stmt->close();

Where 'idsb' are the types of the data you're binding (int, double, string, blob).