LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE forbidden in… PHP

Question

I am trying to use LOAD DATA INFILE to insert some records into a table. Unfortunately, it\'s not working.

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Answer 1

2019+ relevant answer with a bit more background:

In PHP >7.2.16 and >7.3.3 the default ini configuration of mysqli.allow_local_infile, which controls this, changed from '1' to '0' (so it is now disabled by default).

This directive is only configurable via PHP_INI_SYSTEM so ini_set() will not work.

The only option is to add the following directive to your php.ini file, not forgetting to reload apache.

[MySQLi]
mysqli.allow_local_infile = On