#31094 [NEW]: mysqli_connect() does not accept socket=false

From: oliver at realtsp dot com Operating system: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE PHP version: 5.0.2 PHP Bug Type: MySQLi related Bug description: mysqli_connect() does not accept socket=false Description: ------------ mysqli_connect() no longer accepts false/null for the socket parameter. It interprets it as an empty string and as a result fails to find the socket and therefore connect. Previous versions used to ignore false/null and just use the hostname etc to connect. The reason I am not just changing the call to $db = mysqli_connect($host, $username, $password, $database); is because this code is from PEAR::DB and this change would be quite major. See my bug: http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=2960 as danielc points out: "most PHP functions gladly accept false/null for optional string arguments without causing problems" Reproduce code: --------------- <?php $db = mysqli_connect($host, $username, $password, $database, null, null); ?> same result with <?php $db = mysqli_connect($host, $username, $password, $database, false, false); ?> Expected result: ---------------- a valid connection Actual result: -------------- following error: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '' (2) -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=31094&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31094&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31094&r=trysnapshot50 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31094&r=trysnapshot51 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31094&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31094&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31094&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31094&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31094&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31094&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31094&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31094&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31094&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31094&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31094&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31094&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31094&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31094&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31094&r=float MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=31094&r=mysqlcfg