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upload and download a file from sql table using php
bablu
Msg#:4280766
6:19 pm on Mar 12, 2011
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we want 2 upload file into database and also download it from mysql database using php..please help us..
rocknbil
Msg#:4281462
3:46 pm on Mar 14, 2011
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look into mysqldump, to create the backup:
$command = "mysqldump -h $dbhost --user=$dblogin --password=$dbpass $dbname > $yourdirectory/$file";
$result = system($command);
.... will give a backup file with filename $file, be sure $yourdirectory is writable by PHP. Also be sure to read the result if it doesn't work:
if ($result) { die("could not make backup: $result"); }
To download it you open it and generate download headers, then just do readfile($file) (be sure to use full system path, NOT URL.)
Then to upload, you build a standard upload routine that ends with something like
$command = "mysql --user=$dblogin --password=$dbpass $dbname < $yourdirectory/$file";
$result = system($command);
where $file is a cleansed version of the uploaded filename. Note > and <, they should be familiar. :-)
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