[ANNOUNCE] dumpster :: dumps out all related records in a mySQL InnoDB database

Hey all. Well I just finished my first version of a little tool I have
affectionately dubbed "dumpster".=20

I do use my own SQL wrapper functions, but they should map fairly =
cleanly to
a search and replace for the stock mysql_*() ones, or your own ones.=20

Mad props to Peter Brawley [peter.brawley@earthlink.net] for the initial =
SQL
statement to get the FK constraints.

If someone can point me at how to get the information I need to fix that
bug, that'd be swell.

ÐÆ5ÏÐ=20

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This script attempts to generate all the SQL statements needed to =
archive a
snapshot
of a single 'thing'. For example, it can harvest all records related to =
a
given user.=20

(This only works for InnoDB tables that utilize proper FK constraints)

Usage: ./dumpster.php --database mydb --table users --id 1 [--delete] =
>
user_1.sql

Then later simply "mysql --force -u root mydb < user_1.sql" to put the
'user' back
=20
--help, -help, -h, or -? options, to get this help.
--database the name of the database to use.
--table the name of the table to use in the database
--id the ID that joins all these tables together in the =
database
--FKonly only show the Foreign Key list and exit.
--debug to turn on output debugging.
--version to return the version of this file.
--delete deletes the record as it is output (in 'debug' mode this
outputs only, no action).

KNOWN ISSUE: if a column is defined as "ON DELETE SET NULL",=20
then there's a better than average chance that it might get NULL'd by a
DELETE before it,
therefore we won't be able to clean up some records properly as their FK =
ID
is now NULL.=20
catch22. :-|
There is probably a way to find out which FKs have this particular
constraint action
and then we could save off their PK in an array and loop through them at =
the
end I think?

http://daevid.com/examples/dumpster.tgz

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