An easy way to save a database?

Davidc316

Hi,
I'm currently working on a website that has some content management vibes and is generally quite idiot proof.

So far, I've got everything going ok and I'm very close to achieving my goal of building a site that can be managed by someone who is very computer illiterate.

However, the one thing that is ruining my life is the job of saving MySQL database info. Yes- I know how to save MySQL data. I know how to go into PHPMdmin and export the SQL data...bla bla bla.

But, for someone without much computer experience that could be a problem. Is there ANY system that allows you to save all your database info in one or two simple clicks? My goal is to allow the webuser (who has hardly any experience of computers) to easily import and export a MySQL database.

Can anyone give any advice on how to tackle the problem of building an idiot proof database exporter/importer???

Many thanks!

FMB

the easy way...

Download the phpBB Forum and strip the code that allowes you to back up the forum tables 😉 has zip functianality and all 😃

Davidc316

To get a pre written script that could do it all for me would be cool. To be able to write a script from scratch would also be cool.

But, to be honest, I'm not into the idea of doing major surgery on a massive application that has been written by somebody else.