Here's the information I have:
I am working with a Linux based system using MySQL and PHP5. I need to be able to generate a mysqldump from within a .php file, and then have that dump be stored in a file on the server in a location I would specify.
As I'm a PHP nooblet, I'd like someone to give me some assistance, guidance, or code, that would do what I require. This would have to be run remotely from the Internet.
You can use the exec() function to execute an external command.
Note: between shell_exec() and exec(), I would choose the second one, which doesn't return the output to the PHP script -- no need for the PHP script to get the whole SQL dump as a string : you only need it written to a file, and this can be done by the command itself.
That external command will :
be a call to mysqldump, with the right parameters,
and redirect the output to a file.
For example :
mysqldump --user=... --password=... --host=... DB_NAME > /path/to/output/file.sql
Which means your PHP code would look like this :
exec('mysqldump --user=... --password=... --host=... DB_NAME > /path/to/output/file.sql');
Of course, up to you to use the right connection information, replacing the ... with those.
If you want to create a backup to download it via the browser, you also can do this without using a file.
The php function passthru() will directly redirect the output of mysqldump to the browser. In this example it also will be zipped.
Pro: You don't have to deal with temp files.
Con: Won't work on Windows. May have limits with huge datasets.
<?php
$DBUSER="user";
$DBPASSWD="password";
$DATABASE="user_db";
$filename = "backup-" . date("d-m-Y") . ".sql.gz";
$mime = "application/x-gzip";
header( "Content-Type: " . $mime );
header( 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . $filename . '"' );
$cmd = "mysqldump -u $DBUSER --password=$DBPASSWD $DATABASE | gzip --best";
passthru( $cmd );
exit(0);
?>
Take a look here: https://github.com/ifsnop/mysqldump-php ! It is a native solution written in php.
You can install it using composer, and it is as easy as doing:
<?php
use Ifsnop\Mysqldump as IMysqldump;
try {
$dump = new IMysqldump\Mysqldump('database', 'username', 'password');
$dump->start('storage/work/dump.sql');
} catch (\Exception $e) {
echo 'mysqldump-php error: ' . $e->getMessage();
}
?>
It supports advanced users, with lots of options copied from the original mysqldump.
All the options are explained at the github page, but more or less are auto-explicative:
$dumpSettingsDefault = array(
'include-tables' => array(),
'exclude-tables' => array(),
'compress' => 'None',
'no-data' => false,
'add-drop-database' => false,
'add-drop-table' => false,
'single-transaction' => true,
'lock-tables' => false,
'add-locks' => true,
'extended-insert' => true,
'disable-foreign-keys-check' => false,
'where' => '',
'no-create-info' => false
);
For security reasons, it's recommended to specify the password in a configuration file and not in the command (a user can execute a ps aux | grep mysqldump and see the password).
//create a temporary file
$file = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'mysqldump');
//store the configuration options
file_put_contents($file, "[mysqldump]
user={$user}
password=\"{$password}\"");
//execute the command and output the result
passthru("mysqldump --defaults-file=$file {$dbname}");
//delete the temporary file
unlink($file);
Here you can find a comprehensive solution to dump mysql structure and data like in PMA (and without using exec, passthru etc.):
https://github.com/antarasi/MySQL-Dump-with-Foreign-keys
It is fork of dszymczuk project with my enhancements.
The usage is simple
<?php
//MySQL connection parameters
$dbhost = 'localhost';
$dbuser = 'dbuser';
$dbpsw = 'pass';
$dbname = 'dbname';
//Connects to mysql server
$connessione = #mysql_connect($dbhost,$dbuser,$dbpsw);
//Set encoding
mysql_query("SET CHARSET utf8");
mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8' COLLATE 'utf8_general_ci'");
//Includes class
require_once('FKMySQLDump.php');
//Creates a new instance of FKMySQLDump: it exports without compress and base-16 file
$dumper = new FKMySQLDump($dbname,'fk_dump.sql',false,false);
$params = array(
//'skip_structure' => TRUE,
//'skip_data' => TRUE,
);
//Make dump
$dumper->doFKDump($params);
?>
works like a charm :-)
MajorLeo's answer point me in the right direction but it didn't worked for me. I've found this site that follows the same approach and did work.
$dir = "path/to/file/";
$filename = "backup" . date("YmdHis") . ".sql.gz";
$db_host = "host";
$db_username = "username";
$db_password = "password";
$db_database = "database";
$cmd = "mysqldump -h {$db_host} -u {$db_username} --password={$db_password} {$db_database} | gzip > {$dir}{$filename}";
exec($cmd);
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$filename\"");
passthru("cat {$dir}{$filename}");
I hope it helps someone else!
As long as you are allowed to use exec(), you can execute shell commands through your PHP code.
So assuming you know how to write the mysqldump in the command line, i.e.
mysqldump -u [username] -p [database] > [database].sql
then you can use this as the parameter to exec() function.
exec("mysqldump -u mysqluser -p my_database > my_database_dump.sql");
Well, you can always use PHP's system function call.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.system.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php
That runs any command-line program from PHP.
<?php
exec('mysqldump --all-databases > /your/path/to/test.sql');
?>
You can extend the command with any options mysqldump takes ofcourse. Use man mysqldump for more options (but I guess you knew that ;))
global $wpdb;
$export_posts = $wpdb->prefix . 'export_posts';
$backupFile = $_GET['targetDir'].'export-gallery.sql';
$dbhost=DB_HOST;
$dbuser=DB_USER;
$dbpass=DB_PASSWORD;
$db=DB_NAME;
$path_to_mysqldump = "D:\xampp_5.6\mysql\bin";
$query= "D:\\xampp_5.6\mysql\bin\mysqldump.exe -u$dbuser -p$dbpass $db $export_posts> $backupFile";
exec($query);
echo $query;
To dump database using shell_exec(), below is the method :
shell_exec('mysqldump -h localhost -u username -ppassword databasename | gzip > dbname.sql.gz');
None of the above codes worked for me. I am using windows.
Below Code worked for me...
$sql = "SELECT * FROM $tableName WHERE yourclause";
$result = $conn->query($sql);
if($result){
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
$myfile = fopen("daily_events_$district.sql", "w") or die("Unable to open file!");
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
$rowToString = implode("','",$row);
$writeToFile = "INSERT INTO $tableName VALUES('$rowToString');". PHP_EOL;
fwrite($myfile,$writeToFile);
}
echo "File saved successfully";
}
} else {
echo "No result found";
}
This will save file in your project folder according to your query whatever data you want.
<?php
$toDay = date('d-m-Y');
$dbhost = "localhost";
$dbuser = "YOUR DB USER";
$dbpass = "USER PASSWORD";
$dbname = "DB NAME";
exec("mysqldump --user=$dbuser --password='$dbpass' --host=$dbhost $dbname > /home/....../public_html/".$toDay."_DB.sql");
?>
Related
Here's the information I have:
I am working with a Linux based system using MySQL and PHP5. I need to be able to generate a mysqldump from within a .php file, and then have that dump be stored in a file on the server in a location I would specify.
As I'm a PHP nooblet, I'd like someone to give me some assistance, guidance, or code, that would do what I require. This would have to be run remotely from the Internet.
You can use the exec() function to execute an external command.
Note: between shell_exec() and exec(), I would choose the second one, which doesn't return the output to the PHP script -- no need for the PHP script to get the whole SQL dump as a string : you only need it written to a file, and this can be done by the command itself.
That external command will :
be a call to mysqldump, with the right parameters,
and redirect the output to a file.
For example :
mysqldump --user=... --password=... --host=... DB_NAME > /path/to/output/file.sql
Which means your PHP code would look like this :
exec('mysqldump --user=... --password=... --host=... DB_NAME > /path/to/output/file.sql');
Of course, up to you to use the right connection information, replacing the ... with those.
If you want to create a backup to download it via the browser, you also can do this without using a file.
The php function passthru() will directly redirect the output of mysqldump to the browser. In this example it also will be zipped.
Pro: You don't have to deal with temp files.
Con: Won't work on Windows. May have limits with huge datasets.
<?php
$DBUSER="user";
$DBPASSWD="password";
$DATABASE="user_db";
$filename = "backup-" . date("d-m-Y") . ".sql.gz";
$mime = "application/x-gzip";
header( "Content-Type: " . $mime );
header( 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . $filename . '"' );
$cmd = "mysqldump -u $DBUSER --password=$DBPASSWD $DATABASE | gzip --best";
passthru( $cmd );
exit(0);
?>
Take a look here: https://github.com/ifsnop/mysqldump-php ! It is a native solution written in php.
You can install it using composer, and it is as easy as doing:
<?php
use Ifsnop\Mysqldump as IMysqldump;
try {
$dump = new IMysqldump\Mysqldump('database', 'username', 'password');
$dump->start('storage/work/dump.sql');
} catch (\Exception $e) {
echo 'mysqldump-php error: ' . $e->getMessage();
}
?>
It supports advanced users, with lots of options copied from the original mysqldump.
All the options are explained at the github page, but more or less are auto-explicative:
$dumpSettingsDefault = array(
'include-tables' => array(),
'exclude-tables' => array(),
'compress' => 'None',
'no-data' => false,
'add-drop-database' => false,
'add-drop-table' => false,
'single-transaction' => true,
'lock-tables' => false,
'add-locks' => true,
'extended-insert' => true,
'disable-foreign-keys-check' => false,
'where' => '',
'no-create-info' => false
);
For security reasons, it's recommended to specify the password in a configuration file and not in the command (a user can execute a ps aux | grep mysqldump and see the password).
//create a temporary file
$file = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'mysqldump');
//store the configuration options
file_put_contents($file, "[mysqldump]
user={$user}
password=\"{$password}\"");
//execute the command and output the result
passthru("mysqldump --defaults-file=$file {$dbname}");
//delete the temporary file
unlink($file);
Here you can find a comprehensive solution to dump mysql structure and data like in PMA (and without using exec, passthru etc.):
https://github.com/antarasi/MySQL-Dump-with-Foreign-keys
It is fork of dszymczuk project with my enhancements.
The usage is simple
<?php
//MySQL connection parameters
$dbhost = 'localhost';
$dbuser = 'dbuser';
$dbpsw = 'pass';
$dbname = 'dbname';
//Connects to mysql server
$connessione = #mysql_connect($dbhost,$dbuser,$dbpsw);
//Set encoding
mysql_query("SET CHARSET utf8");
mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8' COLLATE 'utf8_general_ci'");
//Includes class
require_once('FKMySQLDump.php');
//Creates a new instance of FKMySQLDump: it exports without compress and base-16 file
$dumper = new FKMySQLDump($dbname,'fk_dump.sql',false,false);
$params = array(
//'skip_structure' => TRUE,
//'skip_data' => TRUE,
);
//Make dump
$dumper->doFKDump($params);
?>
works like a charm :-)
MajorLeo's answer point me in the right direction but it didn't worked for me. I've found this site that follows the same approach and did work.
$dir = "path/to/file/";
$filename = "backup" . date("YmdHis") . ".sql.gz";
$db_host = "host";
$db_username = "username";
$db_password = "password";
$db_database = "database";
$cmd = "mysqldump -h {$db_host} -u {$db_username} --password={$db_password} {$db_database} | gzip > {$dir}{$filename}";
exec($cmd);
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$filename\"");
passthru("cat {$dir}{$filename}");
I hope it helps someone else!
As long as you are allowed to use exec(), you can execute shell commands through your PHP code.
So assuming you know how to write the mysqldump in the command line, i.e.
mysqldump -u [username] -p [database] > [database].sql
then you can use this as the parameter to exec() function.
exec("mysqldump -u mysqluser -p my_database > my_database_dump.sql");
Well, you can always use PHP's system function call.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.system.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php
That runs any command-line program from PHP.
<?php
exec('mysqldump --all-databases > /your/path/to/test.sql');
?>
You can extend the command with any options mysqldump takes ofcourse. Use man mysqldump for more options (but I guess you knew that ;))
global $wpdb;
$export_posts = $wpdb->prefix . 'export_posts';
$backupFile = $_GET['targetDir'].'export-gallery.sql';
$dbhost=DB_HOST;
$dbuser=DB_USER;
$dbpass=DB_PASSWORD;
$db=DB_NAME;
$path_to_mysqldump = "D:\xampp_5.6\mysql\bin";
$query= "D:\\xampp_5.6\mysql\bin\mysqldump.exe -u$dbuser -p$dbpass $db $export_posts> $backupFile";
exec($query);
echo $query;
To dump database using shell_exec(), below is the method :
shell_exec('mysqldump -h localhost -u username -ppassword databasename | gzip > dbname.sql.gz');
None of the above codes worked for me. I am using windows.
Below Code worked for me...
$sql = "SELECT * FROM $tableName WHERE yourclause";
$result = $conn->query($sql);
if($result){
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
$myfile = fopen("daily_events_$district.sql", "w") or die("Unable to open file!");
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
$rowToString = implode("','",$row);
$writeToFile = "INSERT INTO $tableName VALUES('$rowToString');". PHP_EOL;
fwrite($myfile,$writeToFile);
}
echo "File saved successfully";
}
} else {
echo "No result found";
}
This will save file in your project folder according to your query whatever data you want.
<?php
$toDay = date('d-m-Y');
$dbhost = "localhost";
$dbuser = "YOUR DB USER";
$dbpass = "USER PASSWORD";
$dbname = "DB NAME";
exec("mysqldump --user=$dbuser --password='$dbpass' --host=$dbhost $dbname > /home/....../public_html/".$toDay."_DB.sql");
?>
I am trying to restore a mysql database using php. I googled and found out this piece of code :-
<?php
$restore_file = "backup.bkp";
$server_name = "localhost";
$username = "root";
$password = "pass";
$database_name = "db";
$cmd = "mysql -h {$server_name} -u {$username} -p{$password} {$database_name}
< $restore_file";
exec($cmd);
?>
I am using a shared server (linux) and the file was restored using phpmyadmin successfully. But I want to use php to restore. The code does not work. Where am I being wrong?
Thanks to #Scoopy, I found that exec() was disabled my by hosting provider. However, I have solved my problem using the following code I found here :-
$db = mysql_connect ( 'localhost', 'username', 'pass' ) or die('not connected');
mysql_select_db( 'test', $db) or die('Not found');
$fp = fopen ( 'backup-file', 'r' );
$fetchData = fread ( $fp, filesize ( 'backup-file') );
$sqlInfo = explode ( ";\n", $fetchData); // explode dump sql as a array data
foreach ($sqlInfo AS $sqlData )
{
mysql_query ( $sqlData ) or die('Query not executed');
}
BUT, THE CODE IS DEPRECATED. So, I made up this code :-
$host = 'localhost';
$user = 'root';
$password = 'root';
$database = 'test';
$conn = new mysqli($host, $user, $password, $database);
$conn->autocommit(FALSE);
$fp = fopen('bkp-file', 'r');
$fetchData = fread($fp, filesize('bkp-file'));
$sqlInfo = explode(";\n", $fetchData); // explode dump sql as a array data
foreach ($sqlInfo AS $sqlData) {
$conn->query($sqlData);
}
$conn->commit();
$conn->close();
This code is perfect to use. It uses transactions to prevent multiple writes.
Generally a shared hosting server will disable access to system functions as it introduces a security risk for them. You can confirm this if your server provider allows you to use the phpinfo command (docs).
Create a page that dumps the PHP info and then look on that page for a setting called disable_functions - it's under the "Core" section. If exec appears there then you will know that exec is a disabled function and you will not be able to use it. Unfortunately one of the drawbacks of using some shared hosting services as it is impossible/very difficult to implement the sorts of things you are talking about.
I don't see why you need PHP, you can do this directly in the terminal.
Backup
mysqldump -u root -p db> backup.bkp
Restore
mysql -u root -p db < backup.bkp
I have had written the following snippet that generates the mysql database dump and saves it on the server:
public function save_db_backup()
{
$DBUSER=$this->db->username;
$DBPASSWD=$this->db->password;
$DATABASE=$this->db->database;
$filename = $DATABASE . "-" . date("Y-m-d_H-i-s") . ".sql.gz";
$save_path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/application/assets/db_backups/' . $filename;
$cmd = "mysqldump -u $DBUSER --password=$DBPASSWD $DATABASE | gzip --best > " . $save_path;
exec( $cmd );
}
It has been working fine on my other server. But after moving my site to this new server, it has suddenly stopped working i.e. database backup file is not being saved at the path specified. Also, I have checked exec is enabled on the server plus the directory is readable and also writeable:
is_readable($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/application/assets/db_backups/') // true
is_writable($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/application/assets/db_backups/') // true
I have checked and the database credentials are alright. I have tried with the path to mysqldump and that didn't work either:
$cmd = "/usr/bin/mysqldump -u $DBUSER --password=$DBPASSWD $DATABASE | gzip --best > " . $save_path;
What problem could there possibly be?
You should check what user launches the command, and then if the dir is readable and also writeable by THAT user.
If you are launching it from a PHP script, it's the probable cause.
I'm trying to backup one of my databases with mysqldump and I'm trying to export it to an xml file which already exists. Here is what I have:
<?php
$dbUser = 'user'; // db User
$dbPass = 'pass'; // db User Password
$dbName = 'db'; // db name
$dest = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . 'backup'; // Path to directory
class MySQLDump {
private $cmd;
function MySQLDump($dbUser,$dbPass,$dbName,$dest) {
$fname = $dbName.'.xml';
$this->cmd='mysqldump -X -u'.$dbUser.' -p'.$dbPass.' '.$dbName.
' >'.$dest.'/'.$fname;
}
public function backup() {
system($this->cmd, $error);
if($error) {
trigger_error ('Backup failed: ' . $error . '<br />Attempted: ' . $this->cmd);
}
}
} // end class def
$mysqlDump = new MySQLDump($dbUser, $dbPass, $dbName, $dest);
$mysqlDump->backup();
?>
This always generates the error thrown in the backup function. Here is a sample of $cmd's output:
mysqldump -X -udan -pdanPass danDB >/var/www/prod/dan/web/backup/danDB.xml
Any idea what's going wrong? I've never really used mysqldump so I'm not sure if I'm approaching this correctly. Any help is greatly appreciated.
try adding a space between -u and your $dbUser.
According to Does mysqldump return a status? something is going wrong, yes. We can not say if a warning or an error because you didn't share the return code.
Apart from that you can easily learn what exactly goes wrong by looking into STDERR output returned from the mysqldump command. E.g. you can pipe it into database.err:
mysqldump -X -udan -pdanPass danDB >/path/to/backup/danDB.xml 2>database.err
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This one work for me
mysqldump --user=xxx --password=xxx databasename --xml > file.xml
Here's the information I have:
I am working with a Linux based system using MySQL and PHP5. I need to be able to generate a mysqldump from within a .php file, and then have that dump be stored in a file on the server in a location I would specify.
As I'm a PHP nooblet, I'd like someone to give me some assistance, guidance, or code, that would do what I require. This would have to be run remotely from the Internet.
You can use the exec() function to execute an external command.
Note: between shell_exec() and exec(), I would choose the second one, which doesn't return the output to the PHP script -- no need for the PHP script to get the whole SQL dump as a string : you only need it written to a file, and this can be done by the command itself.
That external command will :
be a call to mysqldump, with the right parameters,
and redirect the output to a file.
For example :
mysqldump --user=... --password=... --host=... DB_NAME > /path/to/output/file.sql
Which means your PHP code would look like this :
exec('mysqldump --user=... --password=... --host=... DB_NAME > /path/to/output/file.sql');
Of course, up to you to use the right connection information, replacing the ... with those.
If you want to create a backup to download it via the browser, you also can do this without using a file.
The php function passthru() will directly redirect the output of mysqldump to the browser. In this example it also will be zipped.
Pro: You don't have to deal with temp files.
Con: Won't work on Windows. May have limits with huge datasets.
<?php
$DBUSER="user";
$DBPASSWD="password";
$DATABASE="user_db";
$filename = "backup-" . date("d-m-Y") . ".sql.gz";
$mime = "application/x-gzip";
header( "Content-Type: " . $mime );
header( 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . $filename . '"' );
$cmd = "mysqldump -u $DBUSER --password=$DBPASSWD $DATABASE | gzip --best";
passthru( $cmd );
exit(0);
?>
Take a look here: https://github.com/ifsnop/mysqldump-php ! It is a native solution written in php.
You can install it using composer, and it is as easy as doing:
<?php
use Ifsnop\Mysqldump as IMysqldump;
try {
$dump = new IMysqldump\Mysqldump('database', 'username', 'password');
$dump->start('storage/work/dump.sql');
} catch (\Exception $e) {
echo 'mysqldump-php error: ' . $e->getMessage();
}
?>
It supports advanced users, with lots of options copied from the original mysqldump.
All the options are explained at the github page, but more or less are auto-explicative:
$dumpSettingsDefault = array(
'include-tables' => array(),
'exclude-tables' => array(),
'compress' => 'None',
'no-data' => false,
'add-drop-database' => false,
'add-drop-table' => false,
'single-transaction' => true,
'lock-tables' => false,
'add-locks' => true,
'extended-insert' => true,
'disable-foreign-keys-check' => false,
'where' => '',
'no-create-info' => false
);
For security reasons, it's recommended to specify the password in a configuration file and not in the command (a user can execute a ps aux | grep mysqldump and see the password).
//create a temporary file
$file = tempnam(sys_get_temp_dir(), 'mysqldump');
//store the configuration options
file_put_contents($file, "[mysqldump]
user={$user}
password=\"{$password}\"");
//execute the command and output the result
passthru("mysqldump --defaults-file=$file {$dbname}");
//delete the temporary file
unlink($file);
Here you can find a comprehensive solution to dump mysql structure and data like in PMA (and without using exec, passthru etc.):
https://github.com/antarasi/MySQL-Dump-with-Foreign-keys
It is fork of dszymczuk project with my enhancements.
The usage is simple
<?php
//MySQL connection parameters
$dbhost = 'localhost';
$dbuser = 'dbuser';
$dbpsw = 'pass';
$dbname = 'dbname';
//Connects to mysql server
$connessione = #mysql_connect($dbhost,$dbuser,$dbpsw);
//Set encoding
mysql_query("SET CHARSET utf8");
mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8' COLLATE 'utf8_general_ci'");
//Includes class
require_once('FKMySQLDump.php');
//Creates a new instance of FKMySQLDump: it exports without compress and base-16 file
$dumper = new FKMySQLDump($dbname,'fk_dump.sql',false,false);
$params = array(
//'skip_structure' => TRUE,
//'skip_data' => TRUE,
);
//Make dump
$dumper->doFKDump($params);
?>
works like a charm :-)
MajorLeo's answer point me in the right direction but it didn't worked for me. I've found this site that follows the same approach and did work.
$dir = "path/to/file/";
$filename = "backup" . date("YmdHis") . ".sql.gz";
$db_host = "host";
$db_username = "username";
$db_password = "password";
$db_database = "database";
$cmd = "mysqldump -h {$db_host} -u {$db_username} --password={$db_password} {$db_database} | gzip > {$dir}{$filename}";
exec($cmd);
header("Content-type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$filename\"");
passthru("cat {$dir}{$filename}");
I hope it helps someone else!
As long as you are allowed to use exec(), you can execute shell commands through your PHP code.
So assuming you know how to write the mysqldump in the command line, i.e.
mysqldump -u [username] -p [database] > [database].sql
then you can use this as the parameter to exec() function.
exec("mysqldump -u mysqluser -p my_database > my_database_dump.sql");
Well, you can always use PHP's system function call.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.system.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php
That runs any command-line program from PHP.
<?php
exec('mysqldump --all-databases > /your/path/to/test.sql');
?>
You can extend the command with any options mysqldump takes ofcourse. Use man mysqldump for more options (but I guess you knew that ;))
global $wpdb;
$export_posts = $wpdb->prefix . 'export_posts';
$backupFile = $_GET['targetDir'].'export-gallery.sql';
$dbhost=DB_HOST;
$dbuser=DB_USER;
$dbpass=DB_PASSWORD;
$db=DB_NAME;
$path_to_mysqldump = "D:\xampp_5.6\mysql\bin";
$query= "D:\\xampp_5.6\mysql\bin\mysqldump.exe -u$dbuser -p$dbpass $db $export_posts> $backupFile";
exec($query);
echo $query;
To dump database using shell_exec(), below is the method :
shell_exec('mysqldump -h localhost -u username -ppassword databasename | gzip > dbname.sql.gz');
None of the above codes worked for me. I am using windows.
Below Code worked for me...
$sql = "SELECT * FROM $tableName WHERE yourclause";
$result = $conn->query($sql);
if($result){
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
$myfile = fopen("daily_events_$district.sql", "w") or die("Unable to open file!");
while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
$rowToString = implode("','",$row);
$writeToFile = "INSERT INTO $tableName VALUES('$rowToString');". PHP_EOL;
fwrite($myfile,$writeToFile);
}
echo "File saved successfully";
}
} else {
echo "No result found";
}
This will save file in your project folder according to your query whatever data you want.
<?php
$toDay = date('d-m-Y');
$dbhost = "localhost";
$dbuser = "YOUR DB USER";
$dbpass = "USER PASSWORD";
$dbname = "DB NAME";
exec("mysqldump --user=$dbuser --password='$dbpass' --host=$dbhost $dbname > /home/....../public_html/".$toDay."_DB.sql");
?>