Read a text file and transfer contents to mysql database

Question

I need a php script to read a .txt file.

The content of the text file are like this:

data.txt

145|Joe Blogs|17/03/1954
986|Jim          


        

Answer 1

@Anthony Forloney Your answer is right,just add the vertical bar[ | ] at each very last of each row like this on your data.txt file...

and rest is same as in your answer.This is working for me...

dont forget to add the quotes for varchar type for inserting datas to table....