#25297 [WFx]: mysql_ping result

ID: 25297 User updated by: pulstar at ig dot com dot br Reported By: pulstar at ig dot com dot br Status: Wont fix Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: Linux Debian PHP Version: 4.3.3 New Comment: Okay, I understand. But, what about a new ping and traceroute functions? :-) Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-08-30 01:08:34] georg@php.net 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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