insert data into a database with prepared statements pdo
$hostname = 'XXX';
$database = 'XXX';
$username = 'XXX';
$password = 'XXX';
$database = new PDO("mysql:host=$hostname;dbname=$database", $username, $password);

function get_data($url)
{
  $ch = curl_init();
  $timeout = 5;
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
  curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,$timeout);
  $data = curl_exec($ch);
  curl_close($ch);
  return $data;
}

$html = get_data($_GET['url']);
preg_match_all('/<font face="Arial"><strong>(.*)<br><font color/', $html, $name);
preg_match('/<strong>([A-Zs0-9]+) BIRTHDAYS</strong>/', $html, $date);

for ($i=0, $n=count($name[1]); $i<$n; ++$i) {
        try {
            $insert = $database->prepare("INSERT INTO bday (name, birthdate) VALUES (:name, :date)");

            $database->bindParam(':name', $name[0][$i]);
            $database->bindParam(':date', $date[1]);

            $insert->execute();
        }

        catch (PDOException $e) {
            echo $e->getMessage();
        }
}

$content = file_get_contents('filename');

$line = explode('n', $contents);

$ct = count($arr);
while($i < $ct)
{
     $arr = explode(',', $line[$i]);
     /* Insert into database value $i, $arr[1], $arr[2], just ignore $arr[0] which contains your original string */
     $i++;
}

$array = explode("n",file_get_contents("file.txt"));
foreach($array as $count => $line) {
    $array[$count] = str_replace('xxx',$count+1,$line);
}