Export table to sql

[Peuplarchie]

Good day to you,

            I have added an options to my db production site which is to back up the table into csv file, see code below.

 

Now I would like to be able to export to sql file, how would I do it without using phpMyadmin , I would like to use a function like the following.

 

<?php
$host = 'localhost';
$user = '....';
$pass = '....';
$db = '....';
$table = $_GET[table][tr][td];
$file = 'export';

$link = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) or die("Can not connect." . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db($db) or die("Can not connect.");

$result = mysql_query("SHOW COLUMNS FROM ".$table."");
$i = 0;
if (mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) {
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)) {
$csv_output .= $row['Field']."; ";
$i++;
}
}
$csv_output .= "\n";

$values = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM ".$table."");
while ($rowr = mysql_fetch_row($values)) {
for ($j=0;$j<$i;$j++) {
$csv_output .= $rowr[$j]."; ";
}
$csv_output .= "\n";
}

$filename = "Backup__".$table."__".date("Y-m-d_H-i",time());
header("Content-type: application/vnd.ms-excel");
header("Content-disposition: csv" . date("Y-m-d") . ".csv");
header( "Content-disposition: filename=".$filename.".csv");
print $csv_output;
exit;
echo "Exporting...";
?>

 

 

Thanks!

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[andrewgauger]

$Results = shell_exec("mysqldump -u$User -p$Password $DatabaseName > $file");