RE: [PHP] Newbie Question: mysqldump via PHP

Have you tried putting in the fully qualified pathname to the mysqldump executable? /usr/somepath/mysqldump <rest of your command here> HTH Sam Masiello Software Quality Assurance Engineer Synacor (716) 853-1362 X289 smasiello@synacor.com -----Original Message----- From: Tony Frasketi [mailto:webmaster@spacecovers.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 2:28 PM To: Sam Masiello Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Newbie Question: mysqldump via PHP Hi Sam Thanks for the reply. I had the permission set for 777 so that should allow access to the directory for writing from PHP, should it not? Also I tried specifying >/tmp/db.dump in the command and had the tmp directory permission also set for 777 but still get same results. The file get written but it's still set to zero bytes. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Sam Masiello wrote: > > I would say that you have a permission problem with where PHP is trying > to write the file to. Try outputting the file to /tmp/db.dump and see > if you have the same problem. > > HTH > > Sam Masiello > Software Quality Assurance Engineer > Synacor > (716) 853-1362 X289 > smasiello@synacor.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Frasketi [mailto:webmaster@spacecovers.com] > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 1:56 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] Newbie Question: mysqldump via PHP > > Hello listers > > I'm trying to implement a mySQL database dump via PHP4 on a unix system > as follows... > > ------------------------------------------------------ > $result = exec("mysqldump -umyname --password=mypassword > tablename >db.dump",$xarray,$status); > echo "status[$status]<br>"; > ------------------------------------------------------ > > I get the following error PHP error message... > > status[127] > > and the file 'db.dump' has been created but it has 0 bytes. > > -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 0 Sep 4 13:27 db.dump > > Although I can execute the mysqldump program from the unix shell and I > get... > > -rw-r--r-- 1 myname myname 23704 Sep 4 13:18 db.dump > > My questions are... > > 1. Can the mysqldump program be executed via PHP or not and if not > can you please explain why? > > 2. Is there another way of doing this via PHP? > > Thanks in advance > Tony Frasketi > P.S. Please answer direct, since I'm only subscribed to the digest. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net