at the depth of execQuery(), an in-house function, it has already selected a
database, (default for the project).
my apologise for saying "problem with using mysql_query( ...)", it was my
misunderstanding of this
in-house function. Now I can run the script with "Create database ..." in
the script.
yes file_get_contents('installation.sql') was much better :)
the problem is that not all the client site will have phpMyAdmin,
now the problem has been reduced to just get rid of all comment/non-sql
fluff and do
execQuery(file_get_contents('installation.sql'))
thanks everyone.
""M. Sokolewicz"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> tony yau wrote:
> > I realised that there is a fundamental problem with using mysql_query(
...)
> > to run a .sql script to setup a database, and that was the database
needs to
> > be there in the first place for php to connect to! also there was a lot
of
> > comment lines in the script that was causing problem. ... so I gave up
> > trying to parse the file.
> >
> > instead I did this
> > 1) create the database with phpmyadmin etc
> > 2) remove (by hand) all comment lines from the .sql file
> > and then include the file
> >
> > ob_start();
> > include 'installation.sql';
> > $contents = ob_get_contents();
> > ob_end_clean();
> this is *very* overTheTop; why not just do:
> $contents = file_get_contents('installation.sql');
> ???
> > execQuery($contents);
> >
> > not very good but does the job.
> > thanks for all the help
> >
> > tony yau
> >
> > "Rory Browne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > I'm assuming that the .sql file consists of a list of MySQL queries,
> > that when performed sequentially will set up your system.
> >
> > That being the case, the perfered way ot install the thing is to do a
> > 'mysql [host/username/password parameters] < file.sql'.
> >
> > I believe you can also run file.sql scripts using phpMyAdmin.
> >
> > If you were to define a mysql_run_script() function, it would look a
> > bit like the following:
> >
> > <?pseudo_code
> >
> > function mysql_run_script($file){
> >
> > $sql = file_get_contents($file);
> >
> > $queries = split_sql_into_individual_sql_queries($sql);
> >
> > foreach($queries as $query){
> > mysql_query($query);
> > }
> >
> > }
> >
> > ?>
> >
> > Come to think of it, you could turn the above pseudo code into valid
> > php code, by defining the split_sql_into_individual_sql_queries()
> > function. This would involve splitting by ';', taking into account the
> > possibility that ';' may occur in the middle of a string.
> >
> > Check out the code for phpmyadmin, or phpbb(db backup/recover
> > feature), for a better idea.
> >
> > On 5/27/05, tony yau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >>Hi All,
> >>
> >> I got this .sql script that setup the whole db schema, I can run
> >>mysql.exe to run on my pc but when it goes to a hosting company's server
I
> >>don't have that command!
> >>
> >> So I tried to include("setup.sql") into a string and send that as
one
> >>long sql query. BUT I need to get rid of all the comment lines first in
> >
> > the
> >
> >>script!!
> >>
> >> can someone give me a better idea of doing this.
> >> (there must be an equivalent php function like
> >>mysql_run_script("setup.sql"))
> >>
> >>
> >>thanks
> >>--
> >>Tony Yau
> >>
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