Re: mysqldump

Sorry to be a stickler... but _technically_ the backtick is shorthand for shell_exec(). exec and passthru are a little different. Mike Migurski wrote, On 2003/Jul/25 11:12 AM:

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:

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