Welcome back to shortlearner.com , in our previous post we learn how to export mysql database using php.

Today we will learn how to import a SQL file in our database with the help of our PHP script.

there are two way to import a sql file in database.

1. 1. we can import .sql file  with the help of command line.

      mysql -u username -p database_name < filename.sql

      2.  The second way to import MySQL databases through phpMyAdmin.
      

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      Import.php

      <?php
      $conn =mysqli_connect('localhost', 'root', '' , 'dump');
      
      $query = '';
      $sqlScript = file('find_backup_1538046010.sql');
      foreach ($sqlScript as $line) {
        
        $startWith = substr(trim($line), 0 ,2);
        $endWith = substr(trim($line), -1 ,1);
        
        if (empty($line) || $startWith == '--' || $startWith == '/*' || $startWith == '//') {
          continue;
        }
          $query = $query . $line;
        if ($endWith == ';') {
          mysqli_query($conn,$query) or die('<div class="error-response sql-import-response">Problem in executing the SQL query <b>' . $query. '</b></div>');
          $query= '';   
        }
      }
      echo '<div class="success-response sql-import-response">SQL file imported successfully</div>';
      ?>

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