Question

I’m using this code to backup my mysql database, and it works fine for my purposes.This script save my backup as .sql file how can I zip that sql file.Here’s the code

$username = "***";
$password = "***";
$hostname = "***";
$database = "***";
$username =escapeshellcmd($username);
$password =escapeshellcmd($password);
$hostname =escapeshellcmd($hostname);
$database =escapeshellcmd($database);
$backupFile=''.date("Y-m-d-H-i-s").$database.'.sql';
$command = "mysqldump -u$username -p$password -h$hostname $database > $backupFile";
system($command, $result);
echo $result;

Answer 1

For a pure PHP solution, I believe this should do it: (from http://www.php.net/manual/en/ziparchive.addfile.php

$z = new ZipArchive();
$z->open("sqldump.zip", ZIPARCHIVE::CREATE);
$z->addFile($backupFile);
$z->close();