Question

i am trying to create a database using shell_exec and mysql commands. I do not want to use php built-in mysql_query because of severals reasons. However, i cant get the below command to execute successful. Anyone can show me some light on what went wrong?

$test = shell_exec("mysql -u root -pmypassword create database db_hello;");

var_dump($test);

Answer 1

The correct syntax is like this:

mysql -u [username] -p -e "create database somedb"

Or

mysql --user=user_name --password=your_password -e "SELECT 1 FROM information_schema.tables"

Reference: http://www.electrictoolbox.com/run-single-mysql-query-command-line/

$cmd = escapeshellcmd('mysql -u [username] -p -e "create database somedb"');
$test = shell_exec($cmd);

var_dump($test);