Re: MySQL database

From: Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 13:25:02 +0000
Subject: Re: MySQL database
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Erm......I'm using windows..... And euh....I have MySQL installed, but I don't know if it's running. Anyway, the phpinfo() returns that "MySQL" is enabled.....so I guess it must be working..... ""Julia A. Case"" <julie@MageNet.com> wrote in message news:20010516050336.A23307@MageNet.com... > first off, is the MySQL database running? you can do a ps -xa | grep > mysql to see... second you need to enter a username and password on the > mysql_connect line.. > > Hope this helps, > Julia > > Quoting [Inf] F!RE-WALL (claninfinity@icqmail.com): > > Yo, > > > > I'd like to use a MySQL database on my website. If I look at the PHP details > > of my site (see for yourself at http://infinity.shrimpwars.be/phpinfo.php) > > it says under the MySQL section: "enabled". Well, if I create a testpage > > with this as content: > > > > <? > > mysql_connect("localhost", "", "") > > or die ("unable to connect to database"); > > ?> > > > > I get this: > > > > Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to local MySQL server > > through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (111) in > > /clans/infinity/mysql.php on line 2 > > unable to connect to database > > > > If I run the script on my local machine I get this: > > > > Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Can't connect to MySQL server on > > 'localhost' (10061) in e:\webserver\phptest\mysql.php on line 2 > > unable to connect to database > > > > > > What is wrong? Do note that I don't know much about MySQL, I'm still > > learning :-P > > > > > > > > -- > > 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 > > -- > [ Julia Anne Case ] [ Ships are safe inside the harbor, ] > [Programmer at large] [ but is that what ships are really for. ] > [ Admining Linux ] [ To thine own self be true. ] > [ Windows/WindowsNT ] [ Fair is where you take your cows to be judged. ] > > > -- > 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 >

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