A PHP Error was encountered Severity: Notice
Message: Only variables should be assigned by reference
**this is my controller code **
public function data_backup() { $this->load->dbutil(); $prefs = array('format' => 'zip','filename' => 'nirmithi.sql'); $backup =& $this->dbutil->backup($prefs); $db_name = 'backup-on-'. date("Y-m-d-H-i-s") .'.zip'; $save = 'Backup/'.$db_name; $this->load->helper('file'); write_file($save, $backup); $this->load->helper('download'); force_download($db_name, $backup); }
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Answer
Remove & in this line try it
$backup = $this->dbutil->backup($prefs);