title: an alternative to mysqldump?
body: <p>First of all, I am having serious problems with MYSQLDump, We have a dedicated server here for our main domain and I am running the following command:</p>
  
  <pre><code>mysqldump --opt -h localhost -u root -p ***** --all-databases &gt; ~/var/www/vhosts/mydomain/httpdocs/db.sql
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and I get nothing :(</p>
  
  <p>But more importantly, I don't have root access to every server I have access to.  But I <strong>do</strong> have database username and passwords.  Surely there is a PHP only way of dumping the entire contents of a SQL database?</p>