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

Try this!

$username = "root";
$password = "root";
$hostname = "localhost";
$dbname   = "raas";

header('Content-Description: File Transfer');
header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream');
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename='.basename($dbname . "_" .date("Y-m-d_H-i-s").".sql"));

$command = "C:\AppServ\MySQL\bin\mysqldump --add-drop-table --host=$hostname   --user=$username --password=$password ".$dbname;

system($command);