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Database function fail

Oct 11th, 2009

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function fafaconnect($db_host, $db_user, $db_pass, $db_name) {
	@mysql_connect($db_host, $db_user, $db_pass);
	@mysql_select_db($db_name);
}
 
if ($link = @mysql_connect("localhost", "admin", "pass")) {
	echo "pass-";
} else {
	echo "fail-";
}
if ($select = @mysql_select_db("zushee")) {
	echo "pass-";
} else {
	echo "fail-";
}
 
if ($newlink = fafaconnect("localhost", "admin", "pass", "zushee")) {
	echo "pass";
} else {
	echo "fail";
}
function fafaconnect($db_host, $db_user, $db_pass, $db_name) {
	@mysql_connect($db_host, $db_user, $db_pass);
	@mysql_select_db($db_name);
}

if ($link = @mysql_connect("localhost", "admin", "pass")) {
	echo "pass-";
} else {
	echo "fail-";
}
if ($select = @mysql_select_db("zushee")) {
	echo "pass-";
} else {
	echo "fail-";
}

if ($newlink = fafaconnect("localhost", "admin", "pass", "zushee")) {
	echo "pass";
} else {
	echo "fail";
}

This returns pass-pass-fail. Any ideas?

Last edited by grr; Oct 11th, 2009 at 10:04 pm.

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Oct 11th, 2009

From the PHP Documentation:

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Note: Whenever you specify "localhost" or "localhost:port" as server, the MySQL client library will override this and try to connect to a local socket (named pipe on Windows). If you want to use TCP/IP, use "127.0.0.1" instead of "localhost". If the MySQL client library tries to connect to the wrong local socket, you should set the correct path as Runtime Configuration in your PHP configuration and leave the server field blank.

Try changing localhost to 127.0.0.1 and see if this fixes your problem. If not, try echo'ing mysql_error() instead of "fail" as this will give you more details as to why your connect call is failing.

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Oct 12th, 2009

I guess this have the second argument(connection) missing:

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mysql_select_db($db_name)
mysql_select_db($db_name)

try something like this:

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$conn = mysql_connect($db_host, $db_user, $db_pass);
mysql_select_db($db_name, $conn);
$conn = mysql_connect($db_host, $db_user, $db_pass);
mysql_select_db($db_name, $conn);

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