// if mysqldump is on the system path you do not need to specify the full path
// simply use "mysqldump --add-drop-table ..." in this case
$dumpfname = $dbname . "_" . date("Y-m-d_H-i-s").".sql";
$command = "C:\\xampp\\mysql\\bin\\mysqldump --add-drop-table --host=$hostname
--user=$username ";
if ($password)
$command.= "--password=". $password ." ";
$command.= $dbname;
$command.= " > " . $dumpfname;
system($command);
// zip the dump file
$zipfname = $dbname . "_" . date("Y-m-d_H-i-s").".zip";
$zip = new ZipArchive();
if($zip->open($zipfname,ZIPARCHIVE::CREATE))
{
$zip->addFile($dumpfname,$dumpfname);
$zip->close();
}
// read zip file and send it to standard output
if (file_exists($zipfname)) {
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($zipfname));
flush();
readfile($zipfname);
exit;
}
?>
// if mysqldump is on the system path you do not need to specify the full path
// simply use "mysqldump --add-drop-table ..." in this case
$command = "C:\\xampp\\mysql\\bin\\mysqldump --add-drop-table --host=$hostname
--user=$username ";
if ($password)
$command.= "--password=". $password ." ";
$command.= $dbname;
system($command);