access denied for LOAD DATA INFILE

[sneakyimp]

I'm trying to set up my php script to load an enormous amount of data in from a CSV file. my queries are working fine for everything but this LOAD DATA INFILE command. i know the sql works because i ran it from the mysql command line logged in as root. the core issue seems to be that i cannot provide FILE privileges to the user.

does anyone know how to fix this? i'm apache/php 4.3/mysql 3.23.58. again, other queries run just fine for this user...FILE privelege seems to the sticking point.

<?

include("foo.php");

echo "data import page<br>";

$sql = "LOAD DATA INFILE 'some/abs/path/data_import/_chump.csv'
    INTO TABLE _chump
    FIELDS
        TERMINATED BY ','
        OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '\"'
        ESCAPED BY '\\\\'
    LINES 
        TERMINATED BY '\\r\\n'";

echo $sql . "<br>";

if (!($result = $db->sql_query($sql))) {
  die('Could not import file:' . mysql_error());
}

?>