Question

I’ve got a site hosted with 1and1 – who are useless! For some reason the backup scripts they provide no longer work and they can’t provide me with an answer! So I thought I’d write my own, this is my code:

  if (file_exists('backupfile.sql')){

 $FP = fopen ( 'backupfile.sql', 'r' );
 $READ = fread ( $FP, filesize ( 'backupfile.sql') );
 $READ = explode ( ";\n", $READ );

 foreach ( $READ AS $RED )
 {
  mysql_query ( $RED );
 }

  echo 'Done'; 
 }else{
  echo "no file";
 }

however this gives me the following error

Warning: fread() [function.fread]: Length parameter must be greater than 0 

if I put an @ infront of the fread the script doesn’t error but it doesn’t perform the backup.

Answer 1

Well… My guess from the error message would be that backupfile.sql is empty. Therefore, fread() can’t read anything from it.