RE: [PHP] mysqldump

>Thanks for the replies guys but the main reason I'm doing this is >because most times I don't have access to the servers, or not enough >preveleges to install myadmin or any other tools. I wish we had our own >server but I'm trying for a solution where you can't upload any tools and >cannot access system commands. Curt's suggestion does not require command-line access - the backtick operator is a shorthand for exec() or passthru(), and is a language construct of PHP. So yeah, don't reinvent the wheel. http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.execution.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: sf/ca http://mike.teczno.com/contact.html