Hi, has anyone noticed PDO/MySQL will always try to connect locally regardless of what I put in the host=... DSN part?
The statement: new PDO('mysql:host=php3.de', '****', '*******'); will only throw a PDOException: Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PDOException' with message 'SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)' in /usr/home/thekid/pdo.php:2 This here fixes it: Index: ext/pdo_mysql/mysql_driver.c =================================================================== RCS file: /repository/php-src/ext/pdo_mysql/mysql_driver.c,v retrieving revision 1.36 diff -u -r1.36 mysql_driver.c --- ext/pdo_mysql/mysql_driver.c 13 Feb 2005 17:16:24 -0000 1.36 +++ ext/pdo_mysql/mysql_driver.c 18 Feb 2005 10:00:31 -0000 @@ -327,6 +327,7 @@ if (vars[2].optval && !strcmp("localhost", vars[2].optval)) { unix_socket = vars[4].optval; } else { + host = vars[2].optval; port = atoi(vars[3].optval); } dbname = vars[1].optval; -- Timm If it ain't broken, it doesn't have enough features yet -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php