Posted by Flemming on 11/24/07 16:40

>>>>
>>>> Is there a smarter way?
>>>>
>>>> Flemming
>>>
>>> phpmyadmin has an export tab in the database view. This will export
>>> all the tables, complete with instructions to create the relevant
>>> indexes
>>
>> Thank you for making we aware of the possibility in phpmyadmin to backup
>> a full database in one go. I missed that. It is certainly helpful to me,
>> even though it's not via PHP.
>
> You could download phpmyadmin and check the code they use to do it and
> then
> you can write your own GPL code that uses the code from phpmyadmin.
>

Thank you for that suggestion. That must be the ultimate solution. However,
it would have been easier if someone could point at a CopyTable (using PHP
and mySQL) function somewhere out there on the web.

I'm still hoping for the ultimate tip.

Flemming

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