diff -ru phpMyAdmin-2.6.0-rc2/config.inc.php www/config.inc.php
--- phpMyAdmin-2.6.0-rc2/config.inc.php	Sat Sep  4 15:40:11 2004
+++ www/config.inc.php	Mon Sep 20 12:09:00 2004
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket']        = '';          // Path to the socket - leave blank for default socket
 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type']  = 'tcp';       // How to connect to MySQL server ('tcp' or 'socket')
 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension']     = 'mysql';     // The php MySQL extension to use ('mysql' or 'mysqli')
+$cfg['Servers'][$i]['infile_local']  = TRUE;        // Upon mysql_connect, set client flag to allow for 'LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE'
 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress']      = FALSE;       // Use compressed protocol for the MySQL connection
                                                     // (requires PHP >= 4.3.0)
 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['controluser']   = '';          // MySQL control user settings

diff -ru phpMyAdmin-2.6.0-rc2/libraries/dbi/mysql.dbi.lib.php www/libraries/dbi/mysql.dbi.lib.php
--- phpMyAdmin-2.6.0-rc2/libraries/dbi/mysql.dbi.lib.php        Sun Jul 18 00:58:31 2004
+++ www/libraries/dbi/mysql.dbi.lib.php Mon Sep 20 12:05:19 2004
@@ -47,11 +47,14 @@
                    ? ''
                    : ':' . $cfg['Server']['socket'];
 
+       $client_flags = 0;
     if (PMA_MYSQL_CLIENT_API >= 32349) {
-        $client_flags = $cfg['Server']['compress'] && defined('MYSQL_CLIENT_COMPRESS') ? MYSQL_CLIENT_COMPRESS : 0;
+        $client_flags |= $cfg['Server']['compress'] && defined('MYSQL_CLIENT_COMPRESS') ? MYSQL_CLIENT_COMPRESS : 0;
+        $client_flags |= $cfg['Server']['infile_local'] ? 128 : 0; /* CLIENT_LOCAL_FILES as defined in PHP's /ext/mysql/libmysql/mysql_com.h */
     }
 
-    if (empty($client_clags)) {
+
+    if (empty($client_flags)) {
         $connect_func = 'mysql_' . ($cfg['PersistentConnections'] ? 'p' : '') . 'connect';
         $link = @$connect_func($cfg['Server']['host'] . $server_port . $server_socket, $user, $password);
     } else {