Comments on: A PHP script for testing a MySQL database connection

By: Jesse Rijks

Jesse Rijks — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 13:35:04 +0000

Man, I can’t make up my mind upon whether you’re awesome or awesome! Thank you SO very much!

I can now finally move on (didn’t know what I was doing wrong all the time when coding my PHP pages) and try to make a login page (which is a pain in the ass for a novice like me).

Jarrod, thanx a lot for the add on!

By: Tacon

Tacon — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:55:32 +0000

Worked for me just now! One BigAss Kiss from Holland for you. Thanks for sharing.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:28:08 +0000

I get the same garbage as Chris got back in June!
Did he ever get a answer?
Anybody know what is going on and why we are seeing code?

By: ./ » Blog Archive » musings with LAMP part1

./ » Blog Archive » musings with LAMP part1 — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:14:00 +0000

[...] from stormwind to darnassus’ db. But trying to check apache/mysql connectivity, no cigar. Here’s a nice php script to check for mysql connectivity on your web server. Checked the logs, nothing [...]

By: Sean C Phillips

Sean C Phillips — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:41:29 +0000

Thanks. Saved this novice some serious time.

By: Swaan

Swaan — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:59:02 +0000

Thanks for this awesomeness!

By: marinemerchant

marinemerchant — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:37:44 +0000

Thanks a bunch, helped me realized I didn’t put in the correct username in my wp-config file. My host puts a prefix on any mysql username I create.

By: Jarrod

Jarrod — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:33:13 +0000

I found this script very useful when troubleshooting my db connection string. Nice work.

While using this script I did run into a problem with databases that have a “-” in the name. For example, “dbname-one”. Using backticks in the sql query resolved it.
$sql = "SHOW TABLES FROM `$database`";
It’s a very minor correction, but might ease the frustration of someone who encounters it.
-Jarrod

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:46:58 +0000

Dood you are awesome – nice html/php script! Thank you!

By: chris

chris — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:46:44 +0000

Is this supposed to be saved as HTML or PHP? When I save it as PHP, it gives me 500 Internal Server Error, but when I save it as HTML, there is a bunch of code under the button displayed on the page…