Local and production versions of php and mysql using git

Question

I have a question regarding how to set up local and production versions of a WordPress website that uses, PHP an MySQL.

I want to have these two versions (local and production) use different databases because we can test.

I will be using git to push my changes up to the server.

I have MySQL installed locally, and a webserver set up locally, but I don't know of a way to push mysql changes to the server and keep it connected with with git.

I will be working with several others so it needs to be using git for the database.

How would I go about doing this?

Thank you for any help!

Answer 1

You can dump the scheme and/or the data to a file and then check that file into git.

For example, this will dump the table schema and data to a file named [table_name].sql

mysqldump --user=[user_name] -p --opt [local_database_name] [table_name] > [table_name].sql

To load this data in production, you would do something like this:

mysql --user=[user_name] -p [server_database_name] < [table_name].sql