This extension exports your Symphony database

• Version: 1.12
• Date: 15th October 2014
• Requirements: Symphony 2.4 or above
• Author: Nils Werner, [email protected]
• Constributors: A list of contributors can be found in the commit history
• GitHub Repository: http://github.com/nils-werner/dump_db

This extension will create a downloadable copy of your Symphony CMS database. Please note that it will dump the complete database, not caring about sensitive data whatsoever.

Information about installing and updating extensions can be found in the Symphony documentation at http://symphony-cms.com/learn/.

Path lets you define a destination other than /workspace, i.e. outside your publicly accessible directories. Please make sure that destination is writeable by PHP. The path is relative to the constant DOCROOT, it must begin with a slash and must not end with one.

Format lets you define a custom file naming scheme. %1$s is the placeholder for the mode (authors/data). You can use any other PHP function as long as you don't interfere with sprintf's formatting rules (i.e. '%1$s-'.date('Ymd').'.sql' can be used).

The default path is /workspace, the default format is %1$s.sql

For example (this will place the file outside your installation-directory):

	###### DUMP_DB ######
	'dump_db' => array(
		'format' => '%1$s.sql',
		'path' => '/../sql'
	),
	########

These config-parameters enable you to:

• Append a timestamp to your filenames. That way you will be able to go back to older versions of the database.
• Move the file outside your publicly accessible directories.

Any mixture of the options above is possible.

To enable the restore-feature you need to do so manually using the following line in your array:

	'restore' => 'yes'

In some occasions you don't want DumpDB to save your database into the files on your server (i.e. a server that can only pull from your repositories). For these cases you can provide an option like

	'dump' => 'download'

or

	'dump' => 'text'

This will either force your browser to download the dump or display it as text in your browser window without touching the files on your server. An additional help-text will be displayed showing that you're in one of these two modes.