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

By: suggestion

suggestion — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:03:54 +0000

for more info on failed connection attempts, change this

echo “Could not connect to the server ‘” . $hostname . “‘\n”;

to this

echo “Could not connect to the server ‘” . $hostname . “‘. Error message returned was ” . mysql_error() . ” \n”;

By: Emraan

Emraan — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:04:03 +0000

Very Nice.
Itz very Helpfull,
Thank You so MUCH :-)
Bohat Aala

By: param

param — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:20:32 +0000

very good and very easy test

By: Deborah Cole

Deborah Cole — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 05:02:54 +0000

Wow! A useful utility that really works!!! Thanks dude!

By: mss.janey

mss.janey — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:50:19 +0000

such an excellent piece of code!
easy, stylish, light and above all, functional – just what i needed right now to do some quick testing on multiple accounts!
thnx!

By: Michael Christian

Michael Christian — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:34:44 +0000

You freakin rock man. I used this on a japanese server configuring it. the entire host site is in japanese. you just saved my day man!!!!!!!!!!

thanks

By: AC

AC — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:54:52 +0000

This script worked great in debugging my simple issue – minor error in database name. Thank you for posting this!!!

By: Ramnihor

Ramnihor — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:30:26 +0000

Really wonderfull

By: RayH

RayH — Sat, 14 May 2011 17:56:34 +0000

Hi All,. If anyone experiences the same problem as mine, ie the code was partially displayed on the page and of course it wouldn’t run, then please check that the php page was created without hidden editor characters. After sterling work by Oliver to help with the problem I managed to resolve the issue by deleting the page, creating a new one using a different editor and page type settings and then placing the code into that. Wham it worked brilliantly. Just to prove the point to myself, I then copied the code in a HTML page to see what would happen and the problems experienced were repeated there so obviously my server was not reading the page as a php page. Creating a new page sorted the problem. Thanks Oliver.

By: RayH

RayH — Sat, 14 May 2011 16:31:43 +0000

Hi I want to thank Oliver for the hundred and 10 miles he walked to assist me in getting the above example to function. While the problem was never fully resolved, it may well be something to do with wqamp, php.ini and windows? Oliver reallt did try to help and I thank him for that. Good luck