Posted by Flemming on 11/22/07 19:31

Hi there,

I have a small database running in mySQL on a web-hotel. I use PHP to access
the database.

Unfortunately, the web-hotel does not offer any possibilities for backing up
databases/tables, other than copying the tables manually one by one using
the facilities of phpMyAdmin.

What I would ideally like to have is a PHP routine that that makes an exact
copy of a specified table. I could then easily use that to createl copies of
all the relevant tables in the database.

I thought this would be a relatively easy task, but this does not appear to
be the case. Or maybe I am blind. I can see in phpMyAdmin the SQL statements
needed to create a new empty table and copy the content from the original
table. I could of course copy this code into PHP, but what then if I change
a table? Then I need to change this code as well.

Is there a smarter way?

Flemming

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