Re: [PHP] It's Friday (a MySQL Question) [Solution]

At 5:48 PM -0400 8/13/10, tedd wrote:
>Normally if I want to dump a MySQL database, I read the database via 
>a PHP script (i.e., list tables and fetch rows) and save the results 
>as a text file -- after which I download the file -- it's not a big 
>deal.
>
>However while I was doing my daily read of the MySQL Manual, namely:
>
>http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/select.html
>
>I came across this statement:
>
>     SELECT * FROM table_reference INTO OUTFILE 'file_name'
>
>It looked to be bit simpler/shorter than my code, so I tried it. But 
>it reports:
>
>     Access denied for user 'me'@'localhost' (using password: YES).
>
>I suspect that the "access being denied" is because MySQL doesn't 
>have permission to create the output file. The MySQL manual reports: 
>1) that a file cannot be present; 2) AND MySQL must have file 
>privileges to create the file -- but I don't know how to set that up.
>
>So, has anyone got this to work? If so, how did you do it? If at all 
>possible, please provide code (MySQL/PHP) and not command-line 
>statements.

The problem here was that I am on a hosted account and do not have 
"Server Access" to use the "SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE" syntax.

I suspected such, but it took several exchanges on the mysql list to 
prove the issue.

In short, unless you have "Server Access" , then you cannot use the 
"SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE" syntax in php.

Cheers,

tedd

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