Re: Database connections
| From: | Yasuo Ohgaki | Date: | Mon, 02 Apr 2001 12:12:36 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Database connections | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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You don't have to call mysql_close(). PHP handles cleaning resources when script
execution is ended.
You can set default connection parameters for MySQL in php.ini.
I don't know if you need to call mysql_connect(). (I don't use MySQL :)
Regards,
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Yasuo Ohgaki
""David Hynes"" <david@fed202.com> wrote in message
news:NEBBKPMCELLJJBPCHMGPGEILCBAA.david@fed202.com...
> I'm using PHP on a windows box to access a MySQL database.
>
> I noticed that I do not need to open a database connection before performing
> a mysql_db_query(). Is this bad coding ? Should the database connection
> always be made ? Is this specific to Windows ?
>
> # $databaseConnection = mysql_connect ("localhost", "", ""); ##
> I don't
> seem to need this line, or the last one
> mysql_db_query("dbnam", "SQL query");
> # mysql_close ($databaseConnection);
>
> Thanks,
> David.
>
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