Backup MySQL database with CodeIgniter

Question

I have been looking into the user guide which came with CodeIgniter. I became very interested with the dbutil() method. Particularly the following line of code:

Answer 1

If you are lucky enough to have one of the exec(), shell_exec(), system() or passthru() enabled on your server. Maybe you would want to use the following:

public function db_backup()
{
    $DBUSER=$this->db->username;
    $DBPASSWD=$this->db->password;
    $DATABASE=$this->db->database;

    $filename = $DATABASE . "-" . date("Y-m-d_H-i-s") . ".sql.gz";
    $mime = "application/x-gzip";

    header( "Content-Type: " . $mime );
    header( 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . $filename . '"' );

    // $cmd = "mysqldump -u $DBUSER --password=$DBPASSWD $DATABASE | gzip --best";   
    $cmd = "mysqldump -u $DBUSER --password=$DBPASSWD --no-create-info --complete-insert $DATABASE | gzip --best";

    passthru( $cmd );

    exit(0);
}