PHP script to email DB backups WITHOUT f_open

Okay I have cron jobs running mysqldumps on all of my databases which works fine however now I'm looking for a way to have either the same script (or another) pickup the new db archive and email it off so I have an offsite backup of them. Simple enough to set up an email and pickup the attachments, however the tricky part is my host has completely disabled the f_open portions of PHP so the easy way is out.

Anyone got any coding suggestions using something like curl to pick up the file(s) to send off?

 

Check out that tip. It will back up your DB and email it to you.

http://tips-scripts.com/?tip=sql_backups#tip

 

I have my DB's automatically getting backed up each night without issue, the issue is getting php to actually email me the backup file... I haven't been able to find away to attach a file to an email without using fopen.

I'm just trying to automate things a little better than having to use a cron job to wget then backups down to another server, using one of my IMAP servers seemed the easiest way to store them.

 

fopen() might be disabled but what about file()? Or maybe if you base_64_encode() it and pass the string on the email?

 

You might check out http://phpmailer.sourceforge.net/

 

Thanks, I'll check it out!

 

Yes, It really simplifies adding attachments etc.