I am trying to insert data to a custom table using plugin activation hook register_activation_hook
so when the plugin active the database and its data will insert automatically. The data is in a text file in plugin directory. When I active the plugin database created but no the insert. I thing I did mistake to read the txt file. can someone help me to solve this?
I have a list of data into a text file format like
123|Jhon Doe
124|Michel Muller
125|Jems Curter
126|Miss Weedy
127|Burgel Heigen
I am trying to import them into a wordpress database but failed.
bellow is my code.
//creating db table
function sbl_employee_create_db() {
global $wpdb;
$charset_collate = $wpdb->get_charset_collate();
$table_employee = $wpdb->prefix . 'sbl_employee';
$table_br_name = $wpdb->prefix . 'sbl_br_name';
$sql = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS $table_br_name (
id mediumint(9) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
br_code int(5) NOT NULL,
br_name varchar(220) NOT NULL,
UNIQUE KEY id (id)
) $charset_collate;";
require_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php' );
dbDelta( $sql );
}
//function to insert branch data to database
function insert_brcode_name(){
global $wpdb;
$textCnt = plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ )."data.txt";
$file = fopen($textCnt, 'r');
$arrfields = explode('|', $file);
$br_code = $arrfields[0];
$br_name = $arrfields[1];
$data = array(
'br_code' => $br_code,
'br_name' => $br_name,
);
//format values: %s as string; %d as integer
$format = array(
'%s', '%d'
);
$wpdb->insert( $tablename, $data, $format );
}
//do action when plugin active
register_activation_hook( __FILE__, 'sbl_employee_create_db' );
register_activation_hook( __FILE__, 'insert_brcode_name' );
There are several issues with the insert_brcode_name()
function:
Assuming the file was successfully opened (via fopen()
), $file
is actually a file pointer resource and not a string
. So $arrfields = explode('|', $file);
won't work — it won't give you the result that you expected (and PHP will throw a warning).
Secondly, the $format
should be array( '%d', '%s' )
and not array( '%s', '%d' )
, because in the $data
array, the first item is br_code
(integer/int
) and the second item is br_name
(string/varchar
). So the first item in $format
is for the first item in $data
; the second item in $format
is for the second item in $data
; and so on for other items.
$tablename
is not defined; which I believe is the $wpdb->prefix . 'sbl_br_name'
table.
So here's the insert_brcode_name()
without the above issues: (tried and tested working)
function insert_brcode_name(){
$textCnt = plugin_dir_path( __FILE__ ) . "data.txt";
$file = @fopen($textCnt, 'r');
// Make sure that it's a valid file pointer resource.
if ( ! $file ) {
return false;
}
global $wpdb;
$tablename = $wpdb->prefix . 'sbl_br_name';
// Reads each line in the file.
while ( ! feof( $file ) ) {
$line = fgets( $file );
$arrfields = explode('|', $line);
// Ignores invalid entries..
if ( count( $arrfields ) < 2 ) {
continue;
}
$br_code = $arrfields[0];
$br_name = $arrfields[1];
//echo $br_code . '|' . $br_name . '<br>';
$data = array(
'br_code' => $br_code,
'br_name' => $br_name,
);
//format values: %s as string; %d as integer
$format = array(
'%d', // Format of `br_code`
'%s', // Format of `br_name`
);
$wpdb->insert( $tablename, $data, $format );
}
fclose( $file );
}
Note: The code was re-indented for clarity. There were also minor changes, in addition to the major fixes.