How does phpMyAdmin Export work?
Couldn't find a good answer to my question anywhere. If I were to want to create a php function that does the same thing as the Export tab in phpMyAdmin, how could I do it? I don't know if there is a mysql function that does this or if phpMyAdmin just builds the export file (in SQL that is) manually. Without shell access. Just using php. I tried the documentation for mysqldump , but that seemed to require using the shell (which I'm not quite sure what that even is -- maybe my question is How the heck do you use shell?). My silly idea (aren't they all?) is to allow non-technical users to build