RE: [PHP] Closing Databases

Karl, That should be good enough. What you were told is true - PHP does close connections when the script exits, but every so often this can fail, so closing the connection explicitly is good practice. Best regards, Andrew -------------------------------------- Andrew Hill - OpenLink Software Director Technology Evangelism eBusiness Infrastructure Technology http://www.openlinksw.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Karl J. Stubsjoen [mailto:karlflips@kstub.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 11:47 AM > To: PHP Mailing List > Subject: [PHP] Closing Databases > > > I am making ODBC connections and MySQL connections, and want to make sure > I'm closing my connection properly. Someone once replied that you do not > need to worry about terminating the query set (for MySQL), that PHP takes > care of this for you, is this true for the ODBC connection as well? > > So what I am doing, is making a connection to the db, querying > the db using > select statements, and then releasing the db connection with: mysql_close > or odbc_close. Is that good enough? > > Thanks! > > Karl > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >