What are the potential pitfalls of not setting the PATH environment variable for the location of mysqldump.exe in a PHP script?

If the PATH environment variable is not set for the location of mysqldump.exe in a PHP script, the script may not be able to find the executable and run into errors when trying to execute the mysqldump command. To solve this issue, you can specify the full path to mysqldump.exe in your PHP script to ensure that it can be located and executed successfully. 

<?php
// Specify the full path to mysqldump.exe
$mysqldumpPath = "C:/path/to/mysqldump.exe";

// Use the full path to mysqldump.exe in your system command
system("$mysqldumpPath --user=username --password=password database_name > backup.sql");
?>

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