Bug #52672 [NEW]: selecting a MySQL database

From: Operating system: Windows XP PHP version: 5.2.14 Package: Session related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:selecting a MySQL database Description: ------------ These statements will not return true on the mysql_select_db Is there something I need to do in MySQL to make sure the database is selectable. The connect statement works, the mysql_select_db statement fails. Test script: --------------- // $link = mysql_connect('localhost','vlf','vlf') or die ("connect problem"); $db = mysql_select_db('vlf',$link) or die ("false DB"); Expected result: ---------------- select the database from MySQL Actual result: -------------- false db -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52672&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52672&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52672&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52672&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52672&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52672&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52672&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52672&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52672&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52672&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52672&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52672&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52672&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52672&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52672&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52672&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52672&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52672&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52672&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52672&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52672&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=52672&r=mysqlcfg