Question

In a previous question I enquired about the use of the SQL command LOAD DATA FILE and in the responses I was put into the track of using mysqldump to handle database backups, I got a little help in the understanding of this function but am now very stuck trying to get it to work.

Below is my code, please have a look and if you can see where I am going wrong could you possibly explain and show where? I have looked tirelessly on the net to try and find how to get my code to work but to no avail,

//Database Information
    $dbhost = "localhost";
    $dbname = "foobar";
    $dbuser = "foo";
    $dbpass = "bar";

    if (isset($_POST['backup'])):

        $command = "mysqldump --opt -host=$dbhost --user=$dbuser 
                    --password=$dbpass $dbname > /sql/backup/verypc.sql";
        system($command);

    endif;

Many thanks in advance anyone helping out.

Answer 1

You have -host=$dbhost instead of --host=$dbhost.