PHP - Backup And Restore Sql Database With Php

Can we create a backup of database entered data in PHPMYADMIN?

As you know if we are using locally any database through php then in case of system crash or the like our all the enterred saved data  in the database will gonna be lost
 i want to know that is it possible to create a back up for our saved data in the database and if is it possible then how can we do it????

Hello all,

I need to be able to create file backups on different types of servers running php (windows or linux). I was hoping that there was a good php class out there that would already handle this for me but I have not come across anything as of yet. I can do it perfectly fine in the linux environment but was hoping to find something that would work on a variety of servers running php. I was hoping that it would support php 4 for older sites. If anyone has any good resources for this please let me know.

Thanks

Hi

This is a really basic question but i am trying to understand the process of uploading to amazon S3, I dont want to just download a pre-wriiten script that i dont understand whats happen.

I am using the s3.php class

require_once('S3.php');

$s3 = new S3('[EDITED]', '[EDITED]');

$ourFileName = "files/test.txt";
$ourFileHandle = fopen($ourFileName, 'r') or die("can't open file");
fclose($ourFileHandle);

if ($s3->putObjectFile("files/test.txt", "mybucket", "test/test.txt", S3::ACL_PUBLIC_READ)) {
               echo "<strong>We successfully uploaded your file.</strong>";
}else{
               echo "<strong>Something went wrong while uploading your file... sorry.</strong>";
}

Ok so i am just doing this to figure it out, so i create a file and then upload to amazon s3 this works fine, where i am confused is when you backup all files and directories in a site, i dont want all the backup files in the root off my website i want them to automatically upload to amazon.

So how does the process work?
if i upload a file it works great but i am still upload a file form my server.

How does amazon automatically grab files from my server and upload them.

Anyone no any basic step by step tutorials i have googled loads but they are all massive pre written classes and stuff which i can get working, but looking for a basic example.

Thanks

Ok. I managed to do something like this:

I used CreateZipFile classs from php classes!

Code: [Select]
<?php
include_once 'CreateZipFile.inc.php';

$createZip = new CreateZipFile;

$createZip->zipDirectory('binary', '');

$zipFileName = 'backup.zip';
$handle       = fopen($zipFileName, 'wb');
$out           = fwrite($handle, $createZip->getZippedFile());

fclose($handle);

$createZip->forceDownload($zipFileName);

@unlink($zipFileName);
?>

but there is still one small issue. The archive doesn't contain any empty folders within the binary folder.

hi, im looking for a way to make a page that will backup my mysql when i click a button and i can save it locally on any machine i use.  anybody able to help me out with what to search in google?

thanks!

hi,

I am trying to restore  a mysql db from a remote location

below is the function it is working fine when i am passing local location, but gives error on passing remote location

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function restore($path) {
  $f = fopen('restore.sql' , 'w+');
  if(!$f) {
   echo "Error While Restoring Database";
   return;
  }
  $zip = new ZipArchive();
  if ($zip->open($path) === TRUE) {
   #Get the backup content
   $sql = $zip->getFromName('adobe4u_new-sqldump.sql');
   #Close the Zip File
   $zip->close();
   #Prepare the sql file
   fwrite($f , $sql);
   fclose($f);
 
   #Now restore from the .sql file
   //$command = "mysql --user=root --password=password --database=adobe4u < restore.sql";
   //exec($command);

// Name of the file
$filename = 'restore.sql';


 
// Temporary variable, used to store current query
$templine = '';
// Read in entire file
$lines = file($filename);
// Loop through each line
foreach ($lines as $line)
{
// Skip it if it's a comment
if (substr($line, 0, 2) == '--' || $line == '')
continue;
 
// Add this line to the current segment
$templine .= $line;
// If it has a semicolon at the end, it's the end of the query
if (substr(trim($line), -1, 1) == ';')
{
// Perform the query
mysql_query($templine) or print('Error performing query \'<strong>' . $templine . '\': ' . mysql_error() . '<br /><br />');
// Reset temp variable to empty
$templine = '';
}
}
// Restoring END
 
   #Delete temporary files without any warning
   @unlink('restore.sql');
   echo '<div class="success">Successfully Updated!</div>';
  }
  else {
   echo '<div class="error">Some thing went wrong! Updation Failed</div>';
  }
}

Please can anyone help me in it, so That if i pass a remote location of database it will extract it locally

Hi all,

Not sure if this is a browser feature kind of thing, or if it can be done with a script.

I'm looking at my page:
www.mysite.com/index.php?start=0

I scroll to the bottom of the page with the vertical scroll bar, and then click the pagation link to start on page 2, record #50:
www.mysite.com/index.php?start=50

Of course, the vertical scroll bar jumps back to the it jumps to the top of my page.

Is there a way to make it remember that the scroll bar was at the bottom (or in the middle)?

Thanks.

Hi Guys,

My 2nd issue with my new blog is that the code used to limit the amount of content displayed from each post, is on occasion truncating the closing html tags along with the excess text! Very often this will result in any following posts being entirely italic or bold, which as you can imagine looks ridiculous.
The Code that limits the content:
# Limit Post
function the_content_limit($max_char, $more_link_text = '', $stripteaser = 0, $more_file = '') {
    $content = get_the_content($more_link_text, $stripteaser, $more_file);
    $content = apply_filters('the_content', $content);
    $content = str_replace(']]>', ']]&gt;', $content);
    $content = strip_tags($content, '<h1>,<h2>,<h3>,<strong>,<em>, ');
   if (strlen($_GET['p']) > 0) {
 

I'd be very grateful if someone could help me out with this.
Thanks Steve

hi all

i am looking for the quickest way to zip all files and folder of a website i am currently using the followning.

<?php
$date = date("F-j-Y-g-ia");

if(exec("cd /home/isd/public_html/bk/files;tar -cvpzf backup-$date.tar /home/isd/public_html")) {

echo "done";

 
 

}  

?>

This works but was just wondering if anyone can give me and insight on a better solution??

Thanks

Hi, I have a some online backup software call ahsay, I' am looing to create a API call with a form in PHP

Please check out this link www.123-backup.com/obs-admin-guide.pdf

this is the guide to create a api for the  online backup (page 69)

Would some be intrested in creating this api call and php form for me ?

p.s please see attached image this is something i'am looking for.

if so how much would it be please email me if you want more info!

Here is function that backup mysql database. It's working fine, but I want to download file instead of creating it.




/* backup the db OR just a table */
function backup_tables($host,$user,$pass,$name,$tables = '*')
{

$link = mysql_connect($host,$user,$pass);
mysql_select_db($name,$link);

//get all of the tables
if($tables == '*')
{
$tables = array();
$result = mysql_query('SHOW TABLES');
while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
{
$tables[] = $row[0];
}
}
else
{
$tables = is_array($tables) ? $tables : explode(',',$tables);
}

//cycle through
foreach($tables as $table)
{
$result = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM '.$table);
$num_fields = mysql_num_fields($result);

$return.= 'DROP TABLE '.$table.';';
$row2 = mysql_fetch_row(mysql_query('SHOW CREATE TABLE '.$table));
$return.= "\n\n".$row2[1].";\n\n";

for ($i = 0; $i < $num_fields; $i++) 
{
while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
{
$return.= 'INSERT INTO '.$table.' VALUES(';
for($j=0; $j<$num_fields; $j++) 
{
$row[$j] = addslashes($row[$j]);
$row[$j] = str_replace("\n","\\n",$row[$j]);
if (isset($row[$j])) { $return.= '"'.$row[$j].'"' ; } else { $return.= '""'; }
if ($j<($num_fields-1)) { $return.= ','; }
}
$return.= ");\n";
}
}
$return.="\n\n\n";
}

//save file
$date= date("d-M-Y_h-i");
$handle = fopen('Backup-'.$date.'.sql','w+');
fwrite($handle,$return);
fclose($handle);
}


Usage:
Quote

backup_tables('HOST','USER','PASS','TABLE');

But this will create backup file on server.


I also tried to add following code in function (at the end):

echo $return;
header('Content-type: text/plain');
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"$filename\"");


How to just download file, without showing it on screen instead of using fwrite/fclose function?

after cloasing connection of database i still got the values form database.

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<?php
session_start();
/* 
 * To change this template, choose Tools | Templates
 * and open the template in the editor.
 */
require_once '../database/db_connecting.php';
$dbname="sahansevena";//set database name
 $con=  setConnections();//make connections use implemented methode in db_connectiong.php
 mysql_select_db($dbname, $con);
//update the time and date of the admin table
 $update_time="update admin set last_logged_date =CURDATE(), last_log_time=CURTIME() where username='$uname'limit 3,4";
 //my admin table contain 5 colums they are id, username,password, last_logged_date, last_log_time
 $link= mysql_query($update_time);
 // mysql_select_db($dbname, $link);
//$con=mysql_connect('localhost', 'root','ijts');

       $result="select * from admin where username='a'";

        $result=mysql_query($result);
mysql_close($con);
//here i just check after closing data baseconnection whether i do get reselts but i do, why?
echo "after the cnnection was closed";
if(!$result){
echo "cont fetch data";

}else{

   $row= mysql_fetch_array($result);
   echo "id".$row[0]."usrname".$row[1]."passwped".$row[2]."date".$row[3]."time".$row[4];
}
//  echo "<html>";
//echo "<table border='1' cellspacing='1' cellpadding='2' align='center'>";
//      echo "<thead>";
//           echo"<tr>";
//                   echo "<th>";
//                   echo ID;
//                   echo"</th>";
//                   echo" <th>";echo Username; echo"</th>";
//                    echo"<th>";echo Password; echo"</th>";
//                    echo"<th>";echo Last_logged_date; echo "</th>";
//                   echo "<th>";echo Last_logged_time;  echo "</th>";
//               echo" </tr>";
//           echo" </thead>";
//           echo" <tbody>";
//while($row= mysql_fetch_array($result,MYSQL_BOTH)){
//             echo "<tr>";
//              echo "<td>";
//              echo $row[0];
//               echo "</td>";
//                   echo "<td>";
//              echo $row[1];
//              echo "</td>";
//                  echo "<td>";
//              echo $row[2];
//               echo "</td>";
//                   echo "<td>";
//                echo $row[3];
//              echo "</td>";
//                  echo "<td>";
//              echo $row[4];
//               echo "</td>";
//            echo "</tr>";
//     }
//         echo" </tbody>";
//         echo "</table>";
//         echo "</html>";
     session_destroy();
session_commit();

echo "session and database are closed but i still get values from doatabase session is destroyed".$_SESSION['admin'];
?>

session is destroyed but database connection is not closed.

thanks

hello everyone,
I am about to start coding my pages to display results from a database but before i do i want to know information about the following :

Is it best to upload images to a database?and display them accordingly? or is it best to use images from a directory? What is most commonly used and or more reliable?

Another topic i have trouble finding information on is actually positioning the output from you mysql database, is this practice done with tables?fields and rows? What is this method called? And is there more then one way to go about controlling result layout on your page?

Sorry about the 1001 questions , but i am unable to find a clear answer on the topic ..especially question two .
Thanks in advance.

I have a very tricky php problem here. At least for me.
On a page that is editing a job entry. I have a database generated group of checkboxes some of which have been checked when the job was entered.

So the script has to do two things generate the complete list of checkboxes and check the ones that have already been selected in the job request. The below script is what I've done trying to figure it out.

Description of what I'm trying to do:
I'm generating the the boxes with a call to my database for the list of checkboxes.
Then I'm building an array with all the possible items that could be checked to compare against.
 
Ok here is where I think my first problem is. I need to make a second query to another table "worklog" in the same database. This is where the list of checked items are stored. What is the best way to do this? A second query seems wrong "or at least not efficient"

       Code: [Select]
<div class="text">Job Type&nbsp;(<a class="editlist" href="javascript:editlist('listedit.php?edit=typelist',700,400);">edit list</a>):</div>
<div class="field">

    <?PHP

    $connection=mysql_connect ("localhost", "user", "password") or die ("I cannot connect to the database.");
    $db=mysql_select_db ("database", $connection) or die (mysql_error());
    $query = "SELECT type FROM typelist ORDER BY type ASC";
    $sql_result = mysql_query($query, $connection) or die (mysql_error());
    $i=1;
    echo '<table valign="top"><tr><td>';
    while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($sql_result)) {
    $type = $row["type"];
        if ($i > 1 && $i % 26 == 0)
        echo '</td><td>';
        else if ($i)
        echo '';
        ++$i;
       
        $aTypes = array ("Spec Ad Campaign", "100 x 100 Logo", "100 x 35 (Featured Developer/Broker)", "100 x 40 (Featured Lender)", "120 x 180 (Home Page Auto)", "120 x 45 (Half Tile - Jobs)", "120x60 (Section Sponsor)", "125 x 40 (Profile Page logo)", "135 x 31 (Autos)", "135 x 60 (Autos)", "135 x 60 (Logotile - Jobs)", "150 x 40 (Auto Logo)", "160 x 240 (monster tile)", "160 x 400 (Skyscraper)", "160 x 600 (Tower)", "170x30 (Section Sponsor)", "240 x 180 JPG/GIF Auto Video", "240 x 180 size FLV video ", "300 x 250 (Story Ad)", "300 x 600 (Halfpage)", "468 x 60 (Banner Jpg/Gif)", "728 x 90 (Leaderboard)", "95 x 75 (Sweeps Logo) ", "Agent Profile Page", "Contest", "Creative Change", "Employer Profile", "Holiday Shop", "Home of the Week", "HP Half Banner (234 x 60 Static)", "Mobile Ads (320x53 *300x50*216x36*168x28)", "Newsletter", "Peelback", "Pencil Ad", "Print", "Real Deals", "Resize ad campaign", "Roll-Over Skyscraper", "Site Sponsor logo (170x30)", "Splash Page Production", "Travel Deals Update", "Video Ad", "Web Development", "Web Maintenance", "Web Quote (or Design)");
       
        $dbTypes = explode(',',$row['type']);
       
        foreach ($aTypes as $type){
       
        if(in_array($aType,$dbTypes)){
       
      echo "<input style='font-size:10px;' name='type[]' type='checkbox' value='$type' CHECKED><span style='color:#000;'>$type</span></input><br/>";
       
        }else
       
        {
       
            echo "<input style='font-size:10px;' name='type[]' type='checkbox' value='$type'><span style='color:#000;'>$type</span></input><br/>";  
       
               
        }

        }

    }
      echo '</td></tr></table>';
   
    ?>

</div>

At the moment  I am creating a search function for my website.
The approach I have in mind is a pseudo-PHP database. To give an example:

A HTML form will submit the results to a PHP file.

HTML FORM - Colour: Black
PHP RESULT PAGE - if ($_POST['color'] == 'Black') {readfile("./products/black/*.html");}
HTML FORM - Price: <$50
PHP RESULT PAGE - if ($_POST['Price'] == '<$50') {readfile("./products/less50/*.html");}

The problem here is if there is an item that is black and costs less than $50, then its going to be listed twice. There is probably some code I can write to ommit the listing of duplicate entries, but it is probably going to be messy, so I am wondering if its better to use a centralized MySQL database, rather than a pseudo-PHP database? I've never used MySQL and don't know much about it and this is my first real attempt at using PHP.