The following example shows, how to upload text file and read that uploaded file.And also insert the line by line text file contents to MySQL Database.
Create a folder in your root, Here we named it as upload.In this folder we are uploading text file.
In you form html
<html>
<body>
<table align="center">
<form action="upload_page.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<label for="file">Filename:</label>
<input type="file" name="file" id="file"><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</table>
</body>
</html>
And your upload_page.php
<?php
//upload file to upload folder
$uploaddir = 'upload/';
$uploadfile = $uploaddir . basename($_FILES['file']['name']);
//if upload is success
if (move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'], $uploadfile)) {
//read file
$fp = fopen($uploadfile, 'rb');
while ( ($line = fgets($fp)) !== false) {
echo $line.'<br />';
}
} else {
echo "Error in file upload";
}
?>
