A PHP script for testing a MySQL database connection
A simple page for testing the connection to a MySQL database. The PHP script will test the server address, username and password. If the database field is left empty, it will return a list of available databases. Testing a specific database is optional, but if a database name is supplied, it will return a list of the tables in that database (if any exist).
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>MySQL Connection Test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<style type="text/css">
#wrapper {
width: 600px;
margin: 20px auto 0;
font: 1.2em Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
}
input {
font-size: 1em;
}
#submit {
padding: 4px 8px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<?php
$action = htmlspecialchars($_GET['action'], ENT_QUOTES);
?>
<?php if (!$action) { ?>
<h1>MySQL connection test</h1>
<form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>?action=test" id="mail" method="post">
<table cellpadding="2">
<tr>
<td>Hostname</td>
<td><input type="text" name="hostname" id="hostname" value="" size="30" tabindex="1" /></td>
<td>(usually "localhost")</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Username</td>
<td><input type="text" name="username" id="username" value="" size="30" tabindex="2" /></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Password</td>
<td><input type="text" name="password" id="password" value="" size="30" tabindex="3" /></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Database</td>
<td><input type="text" name="database" id="database" value="" size="30" tabindex="4" /></td>
<td>(optional)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td><input type="submit" id="submit" value="Test Connection" tabindex="5" /></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
<?php } ?>
<?php if ($action == "test") {
// The variables have not been adequately sanitized to protect against SQL Injection attacks: http://us3.php.net/mysql_real_escape_string
$hostname = trim($_POST['hostname']);
$username = trim($_POST['username']);
$password = trim($_POST['password']);
$database = trim($_POST['database']);
$link = mysql_connect("$hostname", "$username", "$password");
if (!$link) {
echo "<p>Could not connect to the server '" . $hostname . "'</p>\n";
echo mysql_error();
}else{
echo "<p>Successfully connected to the server '" . $hostname . "'</p>\n";
printf("MySQL client info: %s\n", mysql_get_client_info());
// printf("MySQL host info: %s\n", mysql_get_host_info());
}
if ($link && !$database) {
echo "<p>No database name was given. Available databases:</p>\n";
$db_list = mysql_list_dbs($link);
echo "<pre>\n";
while ($row = mysql_fetch_object($db_list)) {
echo $row->Database . "\n";
}
echo "</pre>\n";
}
if ($database) {
$dbcheck = mysql_select_db("$database");
if (!$dbcheck) {
echo mysql_error();
}else{
echo "<p>Successfully connected to the database '" . $database . "'</p>\n";
// Check tables
$sql = "SHOW TABLES FROM $database";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
if (mysql_num_rows($result) > 0) {
echo "<p>Available tables:</p>\n";
echo "<pre>\n";
while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
echo "{$row[0]}\n";
}
echo "</pre>\n";
} else {
echo "<p>The database '" . $database . "' contains no tables.</p>\n";
echo mysql_error();
}
}
}
}
?>
</div><!-- end #wrapper -->
</body>
</html>
Hey i try your codes and its worked!
I think this is best easy way to try mysql status for newbies on PHP coding, if i am wrong let me know
June 4th, 2008
Excellent tool!
July 29th, 2008
hey really cool script …..thanks for sharing your script …!!! saves lot of time
Regards
David
September 22nd, 2008
excellent tool, thanks
September 24th, 2008