What are the potential pitfalls of manually inputting 300 questions and 1200 answers into a MySQL database using PHPMyAdmin?

One potential pitfall of manually inputting a large amount of data into a MySQL database using PHPMyAdmin is the risk of human error, leading to inaccuracies or inconsistencies in the data. To avoid this, you can automate the process by writing a PHP script to read the questions and answers from a file or array, and then insert them into the database using SQL queries. 

// Connect to MySQL database
$servername = "localhost";
$username = "username";
$password = "password";
$dbname = "database";
$conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname);

// Check connection
if ($conn->connect_error) {
    die("Connection failed: " . $conn->connect_error);
}

// Array of questions and answers
$data = [
    ["question" => "Question 1", "answer" => "Answer 1"],
    ["question" => "Question 2", "answer" => "Answer 2"],
    // Add more questions and answers here
];

// Insert data into database
foreach ($data as $row) {
    $question = $conn->real_escape_string($row['question']);
    $answer = $conn->real_escape_string($row['answer']);
    
    $sql = "INSERT INTO qa_table (question, answer) VALUES ('$question', '$answer')";
    if ($conn->query($sql) === FALSE) {
        echo "Error: " . $sql . "<br>" . $conn->error;
    }
}

// Close database connection
$conn->close();

Keywords

MySQL PHPMyAdmin data input data migration data validation

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