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I recently encountered an issue requiring me to import about 500 employees into a database and add each one to multiple departments. Using an array, I wrote some pretty simple code to import a CSV file that simply contained “username, real name” into the database. I wanted to post it in case anyone ever needed to do something along these lines. <?php include('../config.php'); $departments = array("department1", "department2", "department3", "department4"); mysql_connect("$dbhost", "$dbuser", "$dbpass") or die(mysql_error()); mysql_select_db("$dbase") or die(mysql_error()); $handle = fopen("employees.csv", "r"); while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 5000, ",")) !== FALSE) { foreach ($departments as &$value) { $query = "INSERT INTO employees (`id`, `name`, `realname`, `tickets`, `dept`) VALUES (NULL, '$data[0]', '$data[1]', '0', '$value')"; $result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error()); echo $data[1] . ' successfully added to ' . $value . ' department<br>'; } } unset($value); ?>