Question

I’m trying to create a PHP file that will export the contents of 4 tables in my MySQL database to an XML file that will be downloaded to the workstation. The tables are orders, orders_products, orders_products_attributes and orders total.

I am able to do the export to xml via phpmyadmin for these tables, but it doesn’t show me the syntax it’s using to create it.

Any help would be appreciated!

Answer 1

Invoke the following command from a shell_exec() inside PHP. You’d need to add your login details alongside the -p option, of course.

mysqldump -p --xml databasename orders orders_products orders_products_attributes orders > dump.xml

details here.