Question : inserting data into mulitple row Mysql

i have tried different insert statements but none work;

I have a table ; empolyees_table.. I added a new cloumn calle emp_status :: this column relates t another table that has a numbers column and descriptoin column: to start out with I want to give every employee that same 'status_code' just a number '1' : I want to popluate every line of every employee with the number '1' in the emp_status column :: thats all thanks...

Answer : inserting data into mulitple row Mysql

you can create an ini file and use parse_ini_file() to read the data, where each file would have its own section within the ini file:
http://php.net/manual/en/function.parse-ini-file.php

Other than that you can also create an xml file and use SimpleXML to process the file:
http://us.php.net/manual/en/book.simplexml.php