Creates a backup of a MySQL database in SQL format.

backup.pl

if (!function_exists('mysql_dump')) {
 
   function mysql_dump($database) {
 
      $query = '';
 
      $tables = @mysql_list_tables($database);
      while ($row = @mysql_fetch_row($tables)) { $table_list[] = $row[0]; }
 
      for ($i = 0; $i < @count($table_list); $i++) {
 
         $results = mysql_query('DESCRIBE ' . $database . '.' . $table_list[$i]);
 
         $query .= 'DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `' . $database . '.' . $table_list[$i] . '`;' . lnbr;
         $query .= lnbr . 'CREATE TABLE `' . $database . '.' . $table_list[$i] . '` (' . lnbr;
 
         $tmp = '';
 
         while ($row = @mysql_fetch_assoc($results)) {
 
            $query .= '`' . $row['Field'] . '` ' . $row['Type'];
 
            if ($row['Null'] != 'YES') { $query .= ' NOT NULL'; }
            if ($row['Default'] != '') { $query .= ' DEFAULT \'' . $row['Default'] . '\''; }
            if ($row['Extra']) { $query .= ' ' . strtoupper($row['Extra']); }
            if ($row['Key'] == 'PRI') { $tmp = 'primary key(' . $row['Field'] . ')'; }
 
            $query .= ','. lnbr;
 
         }
 
         $query .= $tmp . lnbr . ');' . str_repeat(lnbr, 2);
 
         $results = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM ' . $database . '.' . $table_list[$i]);
 
         while ($row = @mysql_fetch_assoc($results)) {
 
            $query .= 'INSERT INTO `' . $database . '.' . $table_list[$i] .'` (';
 
            $data = Array();
 
            while (list($key, $value) = @each($row)) { $data['keys'][] = $key; $data['values'][] = addslashes($value); }
 
            $query .= join($data['keys'], ', ') . ')' . lnbr . 'VALUES (\'' . join($data['values'], '\', \'') . '\');' . lnbr;
 
         }
 
         $query .= str_repeat(lnbr, 2);
 
      }
 
      return $query;
 
   }
 
}