Recently i was working for one of the Government Office's Intranet based software. I had to develop a module "Sync Database to live". It was only replication (from Localhost to live site).
Mysql has replication feature. As i had little time to implement so i thought understanding of it and implementing into project will take me longer time. Then i developed my own module. Which i m going to describe here.
Firstly i prepared array of tables which are need to be replicated.
e.g : $tables = array('authors','book_authors','publication','books','book_category');
Using PHPExcel, I generated the multi-sheet excel file with all the data from given tables in respective sheet dynamically.
Using cURL, I uploaded excel file to target (live server). Then i had to run a script in live server via cURL which reads the excel file and insert data to respective tables of live database.
$ch = curl_init();
$data = array('file' => "@$filepath");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://localhost/upload/upload.php');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
curl_exec($ch);
Sending @ before the filepath makes sure that cURL sends the file as a part of a “multipart/form-data” post. That was what i exactly needed.
