Are you first creating a new database first with mysql_create_db()
before trying to run your schema? What error message do you get? The
code you've posted is only creating a table.
Also, rather than opening and reading in an external file or doing all
those $sql .= lines, you might have an easier time using heredoc syntax,
which would let you do something like
$sql = <<<SQL
CREATE TABLE IP_Dept (
IP_Addr int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default
DeptID int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default
...etc
SQL;
$result = mysql_query($sql,$linkI);
(hopefully $linkI is your mysql connection) This way you don't have to
bother with all that quoting.
-bill
Daevid Vincent wrote:
> I need to use PHP to duplicate the schema of a mysql database. This
> seems like it should be a simple task -- taking a 'template' db and
> cloning it with a new name.
>
> I've tried things like:
>
> $filename = "myDB.sql";
> $fd = fopen ($filename, "r");
> $sql = fread ($fd, filesize ($filename));
> fclose ($fd);
>
> And
>
> $lines = file($filename);
> foreach ($lines as $line_num => $line) { $sql .= $line;
> }
>
> And
> $sql .= "CREATE TABLE IP_Dept (";
> $sql .= " IP_Addr int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default
> '0',";
> $sql .= " DeptID int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default
> '0'";
> $sql .= ");";
>
> $sql .= "CREATE TABLE ResolveTable (";
> $sql .= " IP_Addr int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default
> '0',";
> $sql .= " Name char(255) NOT NULL default '',";
> $sql .= " Custom char(1) default NULL,";
> $sql .= " Global char(1) default 'Y',";
> $sql .= " OSVersion char(255) default NULL,";
> $sql .= " RowID int(10) unsigned NOT NULL
> auto_increment,";
> $sql .= " Display enum('Yes','No') NOT NULL default
> 'Yes',";
> $sql .= " PRIMARY KEY (RowID)";
> $sql .= ");";
>
> echo "<PRE>".$sql."</PRE><P>";
> $result = mysql_query($sql,$linkI);
>
> But ALL of them fail! Ugh!!! Can I not stack commands like that? Is
> there some way to read in a .sql file via PHP? The problem is that my
> web pages are on a web server and the db is on a mysql server which are
> different machines, so calling a system() or other execute style
> function won't work for me.
>
> I figured, "Ah! Why don't I just make a template db on the server and
> issue some SQL command to 'clone' that and rename it". You'd think that
> was pretty straight forward, but I can't find any examples or commands
> to do this seemingly trivial task. Ideas?
>
>
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