I've googled a bit but haven't found anything that suits what I need. For some reason our host although it has phpMyAdmin, does not have upload.php for it. IDK why, but we need an alternate solution to uploading our .sql file.

I read you can use a command line, but have no idea how and would prefer a different method. I tried a command line using exec, however nothing appeared to happen and it did not output any errors.

I want to post this as I look a bit harder, to maybe save some time later. Thanks.

If you can upload the file to your host, then an php exec() call can import it, if the server accepts such calls to be made.
The syntax is:

/usr/bin/mysql -u $username -p$password $dbName< $fullPathToFile

Another solution would be, if your hoster allows remote connection to the DB, to create a user that can connect through the network, and using a mysql frontend tool like mysl query browser to connect via the network to your server and send the SQL file via this channel.

You can open the file in notepad if it isn't real large>>contrlC>> and then paste that into the query window. Does the exact same thing as import.

What kind of host does not fully support the import?