MySQL Syntax Error upon restoring database from backup [closed]

Question

Figured it out upon examining my SQL file. It begins as SQL, and near the end changes to PHP. For some reason the download got messed up and the SQL export began outputting the PHP of the PHPmyAdmin page I was on! (not even just the client side HTML, it was spitting out server side PHP).

Anyways, my backup is corrupt. I had to restore from another database backup and now I need to puzzle piece content together from the last couple of days.

Here’s the code from the bottom of my SQL file, just for reference (preceding lines are regular SQL output, 19 MB of text content).

...
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<script src="./js/messages.php?lang=en&amp;db=advdly_adaily&amp;token=6a3930a6cce9b6bf3d9810d8f65e3f1c" type="text/javascript"></script>
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            Your browser has phpMyAdmin configuration for this domain. Would you like to import it for current session?            <br />
            <a href="#yes">Yes</a> / <a href="#no">No</a>
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localhost</a>
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    <p><strong>SQL query:</strong>
<a href="tbl_sql.php?sql_query=SHOW+TABLE+STATUS+FROM+%60advdly_adaily%60+LIKE+%27wp_rg_form%27&amp;show_query=1&amp;db=advdly_adaily&amp;table=wp_rg_form&amp;token=6a3930a6cce9b6bf3d9810d8f65e3f1c"><span class="nowrap"><img src="./themes/pmahomme/img/b_edit.png" title="Edit" alt="Edit" class="icon" width="16" height="16" /> Edit</span></a>    </p>
    <p>
        <span class="syntax"><span class="inner_sql"><a href="./url.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.mysql.com%2Fdoc%2Frefman%2F5.5%2Fen%2Fshow.html&amp;token=6a3930a6cce9b6bf3d9810d8f65e3f1c" target="mysql_doc"><span class="syntax_alpha syntax_alpha_reservedWord">SHOW</span></a>  <span class="syntax_alpha syntax_alpha_reservedWord">TABLE</span>  <span class="syntax_alpha syntax_alpha_reservedWord">STATUS</span>  <span class="syntax_alpha syntax_alpha_reservedWord">FROM</span>  <span class="syntax_quote syntax_quote_backtick">`advdly_adaily`</span>  <span class="syntax_alpha syntax_alpha_reservedWord">LIKE</span>  <span class="syntax_quote syntax_quote_single">'wp_rg_form'</span></span></span>
    </p>
<p>
    <strong>MySQL said: </strong><a href="./url.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.mysql.com%2Fdoc%2Frefman%2F5.5%2Fen%2Ferror-messages-server.html&amp;token=6a3930a6cce9b6bf3d9810d8f65e3f1c" target="mysql_doc"><img class="icon" src="./themes/pmahomme/img/b_help.png" width="11" height="11" alt="Documentation" title="Documentation" /></a>
</p>
<code>
#2006 - MySQL server has gone away
</code><br />
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