xxsunshinegodxx Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Hi there, I used to run a website which had around 2000 registered members and had a large forum, news section, profiles, control panel, etc The website was set NOT to auto renew and the long and the short of it is that it expired. I managed to recover the actual site which has all the files wrote in php but I have not been able to recover the database from the server, it was deleted. In essence I now have a website written in PHP but I need to recreate the database that it used in order for it to function. Is there any easy way to do this or would I have to go through each PhP file individually in order to ahieve this and even if I do...what I am looking for and how would I create the tables etc I know this is a massive ask but if anyone here can help me out then I would be eternally grateful. I am not experienced with MySQL, the company that origainlly designed the website many years ago for me have gone busty and are untraceable, hence why I have truend to this forum. Hope that someone can help. many thanks for looking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignace Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 What's the name of the forum? Quite possibly it's open-source and you can just download a copy of the database file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxsunshinegodxx Posted January 30, 2011 Author Share Posted January 30, 2011 It's not open source, I paid a lot of money to have it developed several years ago but foolishly I had never made a backup of the database. I went away on business and didn't have my hosting set to auto-renew, as a consequence it was over a month later when I returned to discover that it had expired. Although there was a backup of the directory structure there was no backup of the databases, hence my current predicament. The company that originally designed the site have long since disbanded and I have been searching the net and social networking sites to try and find the designers but to no avail. I have been going through the php pages and can see where the queries to the database are but I am wondering how to go about creating the tables etc from this information alone? If you have any ideas at all then I would be eternally grateful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignace Posted January 30, 2011 Share Posted January 30, 2011 Creating them from the code is nearly impossible, you may get the table name and the names of the columns but not the used data type or length. If they have used views and stored procedures it becomes entirely impossible. Let's hope that those who created your software weren't at all too bright. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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