Posted by Noodle on 09/08/06 14:37

Hi,

I want to dump out a database to the screen using mysqldump, like so...

<?php
echo system('mysqldump -h localhost -u user -p password
my_database');
?>

However, it won't accept my password being passed in like this. Is this
a mysql configuration problem?

Normally, if I were to do this in a terminal window, I would type:
'mysqldump -u user -p my_database', it would then prompt me for my
password before performing the operation.

Any suggestions on how this can be done?

TIA.

Noodle

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