Re: HELP: best way to TEXT dump a MySQL table to a local file...

would be nice... but since this is a hosted site and no shell access or anything, i thought i would write the php script to dump the file to my web path... Ignatius Reilly wrote:

Hi the Third, have you considered dumping the table into a text file? SELECT * FROM mytable INTO OUTFILE "c:/..." this (AFAI) does not cause memory issues Ignatius _________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leo G. Divinagracia III" <ldivinag@csuhayward.edu> To: <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 11:39 AM Subject: [PHP-DB] HELP: best way to TEXT dump a MySQL table to a local file...

project i'm working with, his host died or something. but, the phpMyadmin (on that host) can NOT do a backup of 200mb table without running out of memory or something weird. so what is the best way to text dump the table? i thought i would (pseudo-code): open DB do while not EOF

    grab 1000 rows from DB
    write to a file on host www path
    filename = filename000 + 1

until EOF user would then FTP down the files to his machine. but i figured i could use the HEADER to send it to the user. i grabbed this from the HEADER help section: <?php $output_file = 'something.txt'; $content_len = 666; @ob_end_clean(); @ini_set('zlib.output_compression', 'Off'); header('Pragma: public'); header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: none'); header('Content-Type: application/octetstream; name="' . $output_file . '"'); header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename="' . $output_file . '"'); header("Content-length: $content_len");

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is that the best way to send the txt file to the user? thanks... -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

-- Leo G. Divinagracia III ldivinag@csuhayward.edu zzzzz