How to dump mysql table structure without data with a SQL query?

Question

I need to export a mysql table, but it has like 5gb of entries, so I only want the structure. I am trying to do it from a simple php doing a sql query, how can I do that?

Answer 1

I'm not a MySQL expert by any means but the following site suggests using the -d or --no-data option of mysqldump:

mysqldump -d -h localhost -u root -pmypassword databasename > dumpfile.sql

It worked for me.