inputing multipul data at once into a database

[spires]

Hi,

Does any know how to add more than one row into your database at the same time?

I'm guessing it would be some kind of four loop that keeps looping over the INSERT untill
all the data is in.

Any ideas please

[pmeasham]

you can do this with sql:

INSERT INTO `table` VALUES ('data1a','data1b'),('data2a','data2b'),('data3a','data3b')

You can do this with php using multi database querys as well, however I'd look into using a database abstraction layer.
eg from pears:

[code]
$sth = $db->prepare('INSERT INTO numbers VALUES (?, ?, ?)');
$alldata = array(array(1, 'one', 'en'),
                array(2, 'two', 'to'),
                array(3, 'three', 'tre'),
                array(4, 'four', 'fire'));
$res =& $db->executeMultiple($sth, $alldata);
[/code]

see: http://pear.php.net/package/DB