I ran into an issue with a deployment this week where the target server would not let me have direct access to the server through SSH nor direct access to the database. In fact I don't even have permission to change file or folder permissions (REALLY basic FTP access and a remote SQL log in is all I would be given). I had to figure out an efficient way of populating my MODX database with the Dev site tables via a php script.
First, I installed Databasebackup add on to get a full backup of the target database, in case any table came in corrupt. This tool is pretty cool as it does a full dump as well as dumps each table into a .sql file.
Now, it was time to get my 9Mb .sql file from my dev site into the new database. I found this script on StackOverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19751354/how-to-import-sql-file-in-mysql-database-using-php
<?php
// Name of the file
$filename = '[path_to_your_sql_file_to_import].sql';
// MySQL host
$mysql_host = 'localhost';//<--change to the remote host address if needed
// MySQL username
$mysql_username = '[sql_username]';
// MySQL password
$mysql_password = '[sql_password]';
// Database name
$mysql_database = '[sql_database_name]';
// Connect to MySQL server
mysql_connect($mysql_host, $mysql_username, $mysql_password) or die('Error connecting to MySQL server: ' . mysql_error());
// Select database
mysql_select_db($mysql_database) or die('Error selecting MySQL database: ' . mysql_error());
// Temporary variable, used to store current query
$templine = '';
// Read in entire file
$lines = file($filename);
// Loop through each line
foreach ($lines as $line)
{
// Skip it if it's a comment
if (substr($line, 0, 2) == '--' || $line == '')
continue;
// Add this line to the current segment
$templine .= $line;
// If it has a semicolon at the end, it's the end of the query
if (substr(trim($line), -1, 1) == ';')
{
// Perform the query
mysql_query($templine) or print('Error performing query \'<strong>' . $templine . '\': ' . mysql_error() . '<br /><br />');
// Reset temp variable to empty
$templine = '';
}
}
echo "Tables imported successfully";
I created this as a file in the root of my modx install and ran it in a browser.
So far, it looks like everything came in clean and saved me a lot of time (and errors) to get the db transferred.
Posting it here as reference to anyone else who, on the rare event, finds themselves in this difficult situation.
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