[Release] XML Backup

My test installation has no prefix, and 'extensions' and 'extension_hooks' were not checked.

There are some problems with encodings. For example, the title of my forum is "Название форума", and it's become into

            <row_3>
                <conf_name>o_board_title</conf_name>
                <conf_value>&ETH;ќ&ETH;&deg;&ETH;&middot;&ETH;&sup2;&ETH;&deg;&ETH;&frac12;&ETH;&cedil;&ETH;&micro; &Ntilde;„&ETH;&frac34;&Ntilde;Ђ&Ntilde;ѓ&ETH;&frac14;&ETH;&deg;</conf_value>
            </row_3>

When I tried to recover the forum from the file obtained before, it displayed the following error:

Yes, I'm aware of it not selecting extensions and extensions_hooks. I don't see why they need to be backed up.

I don't have experience with encodings so I just used htmlentities() to keep the XML valid and then html_entity_decode(). What should I use instead?

Maybe Administration » Management » Backup?

By FTP or SSH to a directory, for example. The extension could write backups in the same direcrory. In this case, for example, admin can make a db-snapshot before updating forum and if something has gone wrong he can simply restore the database to the shapshot without uploading/downloading.

The best way is to support both uploading and restoring from a file on server.

Admin can make a full backup on a server 1 and after transferring files one can restore the whole forum on a server 2 with all extensions without installing extensions again.

You have to escape the values. I'm afraid I can't say which way is the best. Try to google or to make some experiments

Updated to 1.1. It doesn't use FTP or SSH file upload because I don't really know how to do it If you show me some examples, I could give it a try.

The issue with utf-8 chars is still here. Maybe it causes the following error:

I obtained it while restoring from a backup. And restoring actually don't work.

I think you have to convert some entities. Try to set the encoding in htmlentities(). And your function xml2array() seems to be UTF-8 incompatible. Why not to use the function xml_to_array()?

Also there can be issues with the "backups" directory. Shared hostings have PHP safe mode turned on, and users will have to set permissions for this directory manually. Why not to store backups in the "cache" directory? What do you think about this?

I meant just what you have done

New to this extension; any files I show modify first before trying to install? I'm getting this error:

Yeah, I think the main idea is really good, but it's not really cross-database... It still needs lots of work...

and testing...

MySQLi and standard characters.

I use SQlite, not sure if this would work for me.

That's fine.