The library provides easy way to create MySQL dumps files. It will try to create dump through:

0. mysqldump shell utility
1. native PHP code

For native dumps(on hosts without shell access), it works with mysqli php extension by default, and fallbacks to old-fashioned mysql whenever mysqli isn't available.

The aim of the library is to work on as many web-hosts as possible: it requires PHP 5.2 and requires just one mysql or mysqli libraries to be available.

Features:

• support for plain text and gzip output(whenever the dump file has .gz extension, a gzip archive will be produced)
• support for including just particular tables from the database, excluding tables, and dumping just tables with particular prefix

ToDo:

• add support for views and triggers
• try how things work with databases with foreign keys constraints

Dump all tables in world database:

$world_dumper = Shuttle_Dumper::create(array(
    'host' => '',
    'username' => 'root',
    'password' => '',
    'db_name' => 'world',
));
// dump the database to plain text file
$world_dumper->dump('world.sql');

// send the output to gziped file:
$world_dumper->dump('world.sql.gz');

Dump only the tables with wp_ prefix:

$wp_dumper = Shuttle_Dumper::create(array(
    'host' => '',
    'username' => 'root',
    'password' => '',
    'db_name' => 'wordpress',
));
$wp_dumper->dump('wordpress.sql', 'wp_');

Dump only country and city tables:

$countries_dumper = Shuttle_Dumper::create(array(
    'host' => '',
    'username' => 'root',
    'password' => '',
    'db_name' => 'world',
    'include_tables' => array('country', 'city'),
));
$countries_dumper->dump('world.sql.gz');

Dump all tables except for city:

$world_dumper = Shuttle_Dumper::create(array(
    'host' => '',
    'username' => 'root',
    'password' => '',
    'db_name' => 'world',
    'exclude_tables' => array('city'),
));
$world_dumper->dump('world-no-cities.sql.gz');