Paths to mysqldump on windows and linux

Question

I begin to creating some php script that make MySQL backup of database using codeigniter framework. But, i have a problem: how to know paths to mysqldump on windows or linux, because I find that mysqldump work on windows only if add full directory address where is this placed for example "D:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysqldump" and in linux is enought "mysqldump" and then add parameters to connect to database. Can you help me?

Answer 1

On Windows, add the path to mysqldump to the executable to your PATH environment variable.

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm

You can then run mysqldump from any folder. Typically common tools are added the PATH variable by installers, but sometimes if you are installing a tool manually you need to add it yourself.

Your PHP code should not have to search the filesystem to find mysqldump.

Answer 2

In Linux, you can run mysqldump with redirection, so that you can specify where the dump file is created, like so:

mysqldump -password database > /path/to/file