Software Development Blog
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Finally, I have released my next version of phpMyDumper. This new version includes improvements that I needed when used in my work as a web programmer.
First of all it now supports UTF-8 connections as default with the MySQL server. The php class will create files encoded as UTF-8 which is important when your database is used with non-US languages.
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
After one week of coding I am ready to release my newest software project: phpMyDumper.
I wanted to do automatic backup of my website databases and normally you would do this using mysqldump and a cronjob. At the moment I am hosting my websites on my own server, but I plan to move the websites to an external webhost. However since I have no way to make sure that I have access to mysqldump on my future webhost especially if cost should be as low as possiible, I decided to write a php tool myself to do the job.
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