One of the most important tasks you needs to do often is backup their MySQL database. In many cases, the database is what drives most of the site. While most web hosts do a daily backup of a customer's database, relying on them to make backups and provide them at no cost is risky to say the least. That's why I've created a database backup function that I can call whenever I want
Here is the PHP Code
$host = "localhost";
$username = "root";
$password = "";
$database_name = "banker";
// Get connection object and set the charset
$conn = mysqli_connect($host, $username, $password, $database_name);
$conn->set_charset("utf8");
// Get All Table Names From the Database
$tables = array();
$sql = "SHOW TABLES";
$result = mysqli_query($conn, $sql);
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_row($result)) {
$tables[] = $row[0];
}
$sqlScript = "";
foreach ($tables as $table) {
// Prepare SQLscript for creating table structure
$query = "SHOW CREATE TABLE $table";
$result = mysqli_query($conn, $query);
$row = mysqli_fetch_row($result);
$sqlScript .= "\n\n" . $row[1] . ";\n\n";
$query = "SELECT * FROM $table";
$result = mysqli_query($conn, $query);
$columnCount = mysqli_num_fields($result);
// Prepare SQLscript for dumping data for each table
for ($i = 0; $i < $columnCount; $i ++) {
while ($row = mysqli_fetch_row($result)) {
$sqlScript .= "INSERT INTO $table VALUES(";
for ($j = 0; $j < $columnCount; $j ++) {
$row[$j] = $row[$j];
if (isset($row[$j])) {
$sqlScript .= '"' . $row[$j] . '"';
} else {
$sqlScript .= '""';
}
if ($j < ($columnCount - 1)) {
$sqlScript .= ',';
}
}
$sqlScript .= ");\n";
}
}
$sqlScript .= "\n";
}
if(!empty($sqlScript))
{
// Save the SQL script to a backup file
$backup_file_name = $database_name . '_backup_' . time() . '.sql';
$fileHandler = fopen($backup_file_name, 'w+');
$number_of_lines = fwrite($fileHandler, $sqlScript);
fclose($fileHandler);
// Download the SQL backup file to the browser
header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . basename($backup_file_name));
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Expires: 0');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate');
header('Pragma: public');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($backup_file_name));
ob_clean();
flush();
readfile($backup_file_name);
exec('rm ' . $backup_file_name);
}