one more thing, I tried the same thing on command promt & it works fine. FYI
I m using IIS server on winXP.
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:31 AM, aslam doctor <aslam.doctor@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hey thanks for your response, I tried it but still not working, even I
> tried echoing the exec statement as Robert said but it generates blank
> Backup.sql file :(
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> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:49 PM, José Miguel Santibáñez A. <jms@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>> > I tried it, but it is just generating a blank .sql file see this code I
>> > used
>> >
>> > exec("mysqldump -h localhost -u root -p testdatabase > Backup.sql");
>>
>> you need put the pass for root user of mysql.
>> you need give permissions to apache (user for php) can write on "."
>> folder.
>>
>> look at your apache error log to identify another messages, but i sugggest
>> to use full options
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>> mysqldump --host=localhost --user=root --password=passforroot \
>> --lock-tables --quick --extended-insert --complete-inserts \
>> --database=testdatabase --result-file=Backup.sql
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> --
>> José Miguel Santibáñez
>> jms@xxxxxxxxx
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