Hi Randal: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 06:51:34AM -0400, Randal Rust wrote: > My understanding is that PHP automatically cleans up a database > connection after it has executed the query. Therefore, I don't need to > use the close() function. Is that correct?
No. close() is called during PHP's cleanup process that happens at the end of script execution. > One thing I'd like to be able to do is check how many > connections have physically been made to the database. Do you mean "SHOW [FULL] PROCESSLIST" or "SHOW [GLOBAL | SESSION] STATUS"? --Dan -- T H E A N A L Y S I S A N D S O L U T I O N S C O M P A N Y data intensive web and database programming http://www.AnalysisAndSolutions.com/ 4015 7th Ave #4, Brooklyn NY 11232 v: 718-854-0335 f: 718-854-0409 _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php