#25297 [Opn->WFx]: mysql_ping result

ID: 25297 Updated by: georg@php.net Reported By: pulstar at ig dot com dot br -Status: Open +Status: Wont fix Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: Linux Debian PHP Version: 4.3.3 New Comment: PHP's function mysql_ping uses the mysqli api function mysql_ping which doesn't support this functionality. mysqling doesn't work like the ping command, it checks if the connections is alive and if not it tries to reconnect. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-08-28 11:22:32] pulstar at ig dot com dot br Description: ------------ The mysql_ping() function could not return the response time of the database server (or the ping time of its host) instead of just return TRUE? This could be useful for test if a connection is slow or the server is remote and user of not compression (I don't know if this could work anyway). Well, PHP could aslo have functions for ping and traceroute, to check if servers are up before attempt to connect on them with mysql_connect(), fsockopen(), file(), etc. :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=25297&edit=1