[PHP] Crash course
OK - MySQL is not an area I've had to bother with, but I'm trying to sort out a tranche of websites that 11 messed up the DNS on last week and we have take over support for. All the databases have backed up and been restored ... although after Firebird's backup and restore system having to dump the database as raw SQL ... that took a LONG time :( Anyway I've installed the mysqli driver and that seems to be working and I've run 'test connection' in mysql workbench with what I think are the same settings in the joomla without a problem, but the website just gives Database connection error (2): Could not connect to MySQL. I can browse the data in workbench, and changing user admin enables and disables that, but nothing seems to sort the php connection. Can anybody think of something that I have missed in this or point me to a suitable 'newbie' guide to debugging mysql connections so I can get all these sites back on line again ... If it was Firebird I'd just have mirrored of one of my other machines and been working as the security stuff is managed in the database, by mysql seems to have layers of security that I'm missing somewhere ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Crash course
Hi, Lester Just try to connect to your mysqlserver using a simple php script first. Example for MySqli: http://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli.construct.php#example-1625 Example for MySql: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-connect.php#refsect1-function.mysql-connect-examples If you still use MySql and not MySqli to connect to your MySql-Server: Please keep in mind, that this extension is about to die out. I just know of mysqli and mysql that you can chosse in the Joomla-Installation process ... PHP itself does also have PDO. There you have to check first if the pdo-driver for mysql is installed: http://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli.quickstart.prepared-statements.php And then try to connect to your server: http://de2.php.net/manual/en/pdo.construct.php#refsect1-pdo.construct-examples If you're using MySqli, please try a prepared-statement as well. http://www.php.net/manual/en/mysqli.quickstart.prepared-statements.php I got access to a server where the administrator had mixed it up that hard, that mysqli as PHP-extension was installed and worked quite well excepted by the prepared-statement :D Bye Simon On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: OK - MySQL is not an area I've had to bother with, but I'm trying to sort out a tranche of websites that 11 messed up the DNS on last week and we have take over support for. All the databases have backed up and been restored ... although after Firebird's backup and restore system having to dump the database as raw SQL ... that took a LONG time :( Anyway I've installed the mysqli driver and that seems to be working and I've run 'test connection' in mysql workbench with what I think are the same settings in the joomla without a problem, but the website just gives Database connection error (2): Could not connect to MySQL. I can browse the data in workbench, and changing user admin enables and disables that, but nothing seems to sort the php connection. Can anybody think of something that I have missed in this or point me to a suitable 'newbie' guide to debugging mysql connections so I can get all these sites back on line again ... If it was Firebird I'd just have mirrored of one of my other machines and been working as the security stuff is managed in the database, by mysql seems to have layers of security that I'm missing somewhere ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Crash course
Simon Schick wrote: Just try to connect to your mysqlserver using a simple php script first. Actually my next step was to try phpMyAdmin ;) Having created a new user with the correct rights it just worked out of the box. I was simply trying to use 'root' just to get going, but it seems that is blocked somewhere and will only work internally. That is I could not log into phpMyAdmin using 'root' ... joomla is using mysqli but as yet is obviously not strict compliant as http://gc.lsces.org.uk/ will demonstrate ... that is if I've not found where to patch joomla since I don't want to switch E_STRICT off just for that. If I do anything with joomla it will be replacing mysql, but to be honest I'll probably just move most of the sites to something *I* can work with :) I've already sorted the E_STRICT problem with my own stuff. I just need to get them running for now! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Crash course
Hi, Lester I know how you feel ... I didn't want to disable E_STRICT either, but as most of those errors come from the Joomla-Core or some extensions, I don't have the nerves to fix code that's not mine and the developer just says aaa ... those E_STRICTs ... why do you even care Therefore I gave up because the developer won't fix those and I don't want to support my own fork of those extensions. Bye Simon On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk wrote: Simon Schick wrote: Just try to connect to your mysqlserver using a simple php script first. Actually my next step was to try phpMyAdmin ;) Having created a new user with the correct rights it just worked out of the box. I was simply trying to use 'root' just to get going, but it seems that is blocked somewhere and will only work internally. That is I could not log into phpMyAdmin using 'root' ... joomla is using mysqli but as yet is obviously not strict compliant as http://gc.lsces.org.uk/ will demonstrate ... that is if I've not found where to patch joomla since I don't want to switch E_STRICT off just for that. If I do anything with joomla it will be replacing mysql, but to be honest I'll probably just move most of the sites to something *I* can work with :) I've already sorted the E_STRICT problem with my own stuff. I just need to get them running for now! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Crash course
Simon Schick wrote: Hi, Lester I know how you feel ... I didn't want to disable E_STRICT either, but as most of those errors come from the Joomla-Core or some extensions, I don't have the nerves to fix code that's not mine and the developer just says aaa ... those E_STRICTs ... why do you even care Therefore I gave up because the developer won't fix those and I don't want to support my own fork of those extensions. Actually all I was trying to work out was overriding the setting for the joomla sites ... but I hit another problem first :( Need to compile mysqli and mysqlnd as shared modules, but can't seem to untangle the interrelation on header files ... I'm missing something there when running ./configure to get them to see the other's ext/ folder on the php5.4 configuration on the main server ... what should be a 5 minute job always seems to take hours :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Crash course
-Original Message- From: Lester Caine [mailto:les...@lsces.co.uk] Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 6:52 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Crash course OK - MySQL is not an area I've had to bother with, but I'm trying to sort out a tranche of websites that 11 messed up the DNS on last week and we have take over support for. All the databases have backed up and been restored ... although after Firebird's backup and restore system having to dump the database as raw SQL ... that took a LONG time :( Anyway I've installed the mysqli driver and that seems to be working and I've run 'test connection' in mysql workbench with what I think are the same settings in the joomla without a problem, but the website just gives Database connection error (2): Could not connect to MySQL. I can browse the data in workbench, and changing user admin enables and disables that, but nothing seems to sort the php connection. Can anybody think of something that I have missed in this or point me to a suitable 'newbie' guide to debugging mysql connections so I can get all these sites back on line again ... If it was Firebird I'd just have mirrored of one of my other machines and been working as the security stuff is managed in the database, by mysql seems to have layers of security that I'm missing somewhere ;) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- First of all, I HIGHLY doubt that 1and1 AKA Cisco messed up the DNS. I would be very careful blaming them and publically announcing it. Secondly if you tested mysql connection with Workbench then the error you describe is configuration error in Joomla, common sense would dictate so. http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/joomla-25/database/troubleshootin g-database-errors This list is for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Crash course
admin wrote: First of all, I HIGHLY doubt that 1and1 AKA Cisco messed up the DNS. I would be very careful blaming them and publically announcing it. We can publish the list of sites that were unavailable for 48 hours. It was the last straw for the customer as this was not the first occasion it had happened and we were asked to sort the matter out after several hours of being given the run around. NOW I'm trying to get PHP working with the customers material which was running on PHP5.2 but I no longer have 5.2 on my servers. Secondly if you tested mysql connection with Workbench then the error you describe is configuration error in Joomla, common sense would dictate so. http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/joomla-25/database/troubleshootin g-database-errors Which was exactly the sort of help I was asking for, finding some things like that can take time when one is in a rush, but ACTUALLY that page gave me nothing as the subsequent post indicated. It was the PHP setup with MySQL that I was playing with at the time although the actual problem was simply adding a user name that PHP could access - not something I was expecting since I can always use the system accounts with Firebird. This list is for PHP And the problems I am having are getting PHP working! Current problem simply getting mysqli and mysqlnd compiled so I can add them to the PHP5.4 setup. I've been at this for the last 3 hours and am making progress, but nothing actually worked first time :( And the sites still arn't up on my servers. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] Crash Course on PHP WORKS :: Registering Globals
OK if you are running php on apache and your form variables don't pass through fire up your editor and edit php.ini and turn Register Globals ON Cheerz Until Next time. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Crash Course on PHP WORKS :: Registering Globals
Please read: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.predefined.php Regards, Philip Olson On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, vins wrote: OK if you are running php on apache and your form variables don't pass through fire up your editor and edit php.ini and turn Register Globals ON Cheerz Until Next time. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
