In your connect statement, you aren't selecting a password and TCP port to
connect to. You made need to specify those.
Adam
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Brian Noecker wrote:
> Hey everyone, got a problem here. I'm using php4.2.1, postgres 7.2. I'm
> trying to do a simple database connect with the following small php script:
> --------------------------
> <html><head><title>PHP Test</title></head>
> <body>
> <?php
>
> //connect to postgres database
> $conn=pg_connect("user=bnoecker dbname=brian");
>
> //see if our connection was successful
> if ($conn==false) {
> //connection failed - exit the page with an error
> echo pg_errormessage($conn);
> exit;
> }
> else if($conn) {
> echo "I did it";
> }
> $sql="SELECT * FROM employee";
> $sql_result=pg_exec($conn.$sql) or die ("Couldn't Execute Query.");
> ------------------------------------
>
> I can manually run the SELECT * FROM employee string and get results with
> user bnoecker. I've granted all to bnoecker and as well added the postgres
> admin to the user=. In test, no password has been assigned. I do not get a
> connection failed message, in fact I do the the "I did it" message. I do
> however get the following as it tries to do the query:
>
> I did it
> Warning: pg_exec() query failed: ERROR: parser: parse error at or near
> "resource" in /home/bnoecker/public_html/hello.php on line 19
> Couldn't Execute Query.
> Now, others use the same postgres instance with other databases from php
> scripts without issue, mostly using includes. Can someone show me what I
> may be overlooking. I'm new to php but I found examples where things are
> basically layed out like what I've got?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
>
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