It's Friday (a MySQL Question)

Hi gang: Normally if I want to dump a MySQL database, I read the database via a PHP script (i.e., list tables and fetch rows) and save the results as a text file -- after which I download the file -- it's not a big deal. However while I was doing my daily read of the MySQL Manual, namely: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/select.html I came across this statement:

    SELECT * FROM table_reference INTO OUTFILE 'file_name'

It looked to be bit simpler/shorter than my code, so I tried it. But it reports:

    Access denied for user 'me'@'localhost' (using password: YES).

I suspect that the "access being denied" is because MySQL doesn't have permission to create the output file. The MySQL manual reports: 1) that a file cannot be present; 2) AND MySQL must have file privileges to create the file -- but I don't know how to set that up. So, has anyone got this to work? If so, how did you do it? If at all possible, please provide code (MySQL/PHP) and not command-line statements. Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com/