I have already listed the PHP script to generate backup of database in one of my earlier post.
I am listing here the PHP script to restore database from mysql database file.
<?php
/* Database Restore */
$username = "dbusername"; //database username
$password = 'dbpass'; //database password
$hostname = "localhost"; //host
$dbname = "dbname"; //database name to be restored
$sConnString = mysql_connect($hostname, $username, $password)
or die("Unable to connect to MySQL");
$restore_from = '/pathtodirectory/db.sql.gz'; //give full path of the directory where the your mysql database file is stored, this can be zip,gzip or sql file
//overwrite $dbname database with database backup stored at $restore_from
$command = "gunzip < $restore_from | -u$username -p$password $dbname"; //this is for gzip file
if(system($command) === FALSE)
{
echo "<br/>Failed to Restore database.";
}else
{
echo "<br/>Database Restored successfully.";
}
?>
how about with out gzip, just sql
$command = “mysql -u $username -p $password $dbname < $restore_from"; Please test this once with sample DB, don't try on production environment.