Laravel Artisan command to perform MySQL Dump using database connection information in the .env file. Posted 2016 Jan. Unsupported. Forked from https://gist.github.com/kkiernan/bdd0954d0149b89c372a

Kernel.php

<?php

namespace App\Console;

use Illuminate\Console\Scheduling\Schedule;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel as ConsoleKernel;

class Kernel extends ConsoleKernel
{
    /**
     * The Artisan commands provided by your application.
     *
     * @var array
     */
    protected $commands = [
        \App\Console\Commands\Inspire::class,
        
        // add the MySqlDump command here
        \App\Console\Commands\MySqlDump::class,
    ];

    // etc...
}

MySqlDump.php

<?php

namespace App\Console\Commands;

use Illuminate\Console\Command;

class MySqlDump extends Command
{
    /**
     * The name and signature of the console command.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $signature = 'db:dump';

    /**
     * The console command description.
     *
     * @var string
     */
    protected $description = 'Runs the mysqldump utility using info from .env';

    /**
     * Execute the console command.
     *
     * @return mixed
     */
    public function handle()
    {
        $ds = DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;

        $host = env('DB_HOST');
        $username = env('DB_USERNAME');
        $password = env('DB_PASSWORD');
        $database = env('DB_DATABASE');
        
        $ts = time();

        $path = database_path() . $ds . 'backups' . $ds . date('Y', $ts) . $ds . date('m', $ts) . $ds . date('d', $ts) . $ds;
        $file = date('Y-m-d-His', $ts) . '-dump-' . $database . '.sql';
        $command = sprintf('mysqldump -h %s -u %s -p\'%s\' %s > %s', $host, $username, $password, $database, $path . $file);

        if (!is_dir($path)) {
            mkdir($path, 0755, true);
        }

        exec($command);
    }
}

Thanks @philharmonie !

Curiously I had the same error that you were getting (Access Denied) but when I switched to using the Symfony process control it worked as expected 🤷‍♀️ This does mean I load the whole file into memory, which could be an issue with large databases.

My slightly different version, using config instead of env and adding the port (because I have a custom port).

A bonus of using Process is that we could also check if it worked, and do something differently if it didn't.

use Symfony\Component\Process\Process;


        $host = config('database.connections.mysql.host');
        $username = config('database.connections.mysql.username');
        $password = config('database.connections.mysql.password');
        $database = config('database.connections.mysql.database');
        $port = config('database.connections.mysql.port');
        
        $process = new Process([
            'mysqldump',
            '-h', $host,
            '-P', $port,
            '-u', $username,
            '-p'.$password,
            $database,
        ]);
        $process->run();

         // Note: I actually use Storage::put() and a fixed filename to output, but for consistency with the rest of this Gist I've
         // put this untested version in:
         
        $ts = time();

        $path = database_path() . $ds . 'backups' . $ds . date('Y', $ts) . $ds . date('m', $ts) . $ds . date('d', $ts) . $ds;
        $file = date('Y-m-d-His', $ts) . '-dump-' . $database . '.sql';

        file_put_contents($path, $process->getOutput());