[SOLVED] specifying paths using shell_exec

[obay]

i use xampplite locally, winxp.

 

from PHP, this creates a blank mydump.sql file:

 

shell_exec("mysqldump --allow-keywords --opt -uroot  mydb > mydump.sql");

 

but this works fine:

 

shell_exec("c:\\xampplite\\mysql\\bin\\mysqldump --allow-keywords --opt -uroot mydb > mydump.sql");

 

but if i use the second one on my pages, im afraid the code might not work anymore when i transfer the site to my server, because of the path. any suggestions???

[obay]

i found my answer

 

on nix servers, i only need to "mysqldump", no path. my web server is linux

 

=)