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XCI. MySQL Functions
In order to have these functions available, you must compile PHP with
MySQL support.
For compiling, simply use the
--with-mysql[=DIR]
configuration option where the optional [DIR] points to
the MySQL installation directory.
Although this MySQL extension is compatible with MySQL 4.1.0 and greater,
it doesn't support the extra functionality that these versions provide.
For that, use the MySQLi extension.
If you would like to install the mysql extension along with the mysqli extension
you have to use the same client library to avoid any conflicts.
The option --with-mysql is
enabled by default. This default behavior may be disabled with the
--without-mysql configure option.
If MySQL is enabled without specifying the path to the
MySQL install DIR, PHP will use the bundled MySQL client libraries.
Users who run other applications that use MySQL (for example,
auth-mysql) should not use the bundled library, but rather specify the
path to MySQL's install directory, like so:
--with-mysql=/path/to/mysql.
This will force PHP to use the client libraries installed by MySQL, thus
avoiding any conflicts.
MySQL is not enabled by default, nor is the MySQL library
bundled with PHP. Read this
FAQ for details on why. Use the
--with-mysql[=DIR] configure option
to include MySQL support.
You can download headers and libraries from
MySQL.
The PHP MySQL extension is compiled into PHP.
MySQL is no longer enabled by default, so the
php_mysql.dll DLL must be enabled inside of
php.ini. Also, PHP needs access to the MySQL client library. A file
named libmysql.dll is included in the Windows PHP
distribution and in order for PHP to talk to MySQL this file needs to be
available to the Windows systems PATH. See the FAQ
titled "How do I add my PHP
directory to the PATH on Windows" for information on how to do
this. Although copying libmysql.dll to the Windows
system directory also works (because the system directory is by default in
the system's PATH), it's not recommended.
As with enabling any PHP extension (such as
php_mysql.dll), the PHP directive
extension_dir should be set to
the directory where the PHP extensions are located. See also the
Manual Windows Installation
Instructions. An example extension_dir value for PHP 5 is
c:\php\ext
Note:
If when starting the web server an error similar to the following occurs:
"Unable to load dynamic library './php_mysql.dll'",
this is because php_mysql.dll and/or
libmysql.dll cannot be found by the system.
| Warning |
Crashes and startup problems of PHP may be encountered
when loading this extension in conjunction with the recode extension.
See the recode extension for more
information.
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Note:
If you need charsets other than latin (default), you
have to install external (not bundled) libmysql with compiled charset
support.
The behaviour of these functions is affected by settings in php.ini.
Table 1. MySQL Configuration Options | Name | Default | Changeable | Changelog |
|---|
| mysql.allow_persistent | "1" | PHP_INI_SYSTEM | | | mysql.max_persistent | "-1" | PHP_INI_SYSTEM | | | mysql.max_links | "-1" | PHP_INI_SYSTEM | | | mysql.trace_mode | "0" | PHP_INI_ALL | Available since PHP 4.3.0. | | mysql.default_port | NULL | PHP_INI_ALL | | | mysql.default_socket | NULL | PHP_INI_ALL | Available since PHP 4.0.1. | | mysql.default_host | NULL | PHP_INI_ALL | | | mysql.default_user | NULL | PHP_INI_ALL | | | mysql.default_password | NULL | PHP_INI_ALL | | | mysql.connect_timeout | "60" | PHP_INI_ALL | PHP_INI_SYSTEM in PHP <= 4.3.2. Available since PHP 4.3.0. |
For further details and definitions of the
PHP_INI_* constants, see the Appendix G.
Here's a short explanation of
the configuration directives.
- mysql.allow_persistent
boolean
Whether to allow
persistent connections
to MySQL.
- mysql.max_persistent
integer
The maximum number of persistent MySQL connections per
process.
- mysql.max_links
integer
The maximum number of MySQL connections per process, including
persistent connections.
- mysql.trace_mode
boolean
Trace mode. When mysql.trace_mode is enabled, warnings
for table/index scans, non free result sets, and SQL-Errors will be
displayed. (Introduced in PHP 4.3.0)
- mysql.default_port
string
The default TCP port number to use when connecting to
the database server if no other port is specified. If
no default is specified, the port will be obtained
from the MYSQL_TCP_PORT environment
variable, the mysql-tcp entry in
/etc/services or the compile-time
MYSQL_PORT constant, in that order. Win32
will only use the MYSQL_PORT constant.
- mysql.default_socket
string
The default socket name to use when connecting to a local
database server if no other socket name is specified.
- mysql.default_host
string
The default server host to use when connecting to the database
server if no other host is specified. Doesn't apply in
SQL safe mode.
- mysql.default_user
string
The default user name to use when connecting to the database
server if no other name is specified. Doesn't apply in
SQL safe mode.
- mysql.default_password
string
The default password to use when connecting to the database
server if no other password is specified. Doesn't apply in
SQL safe mode.
- mysql.connect_timeout
integer
Connect timeout in seconds. On Linux this timeout is also used for
waiting for the first answer from the server.
There are two resource types used in the MySQL module. The first one
is the link identifier for a database connection, the second a resource
which holds the result of a query.
The constants below are defined by this extension, and
will only be available when the extension has either
been compiled into PHP or dynamically loaded at runtime.
Since PHP 4.3.0 it is possible to specify additional client flags for the
mysql_connect() and mysql_pconnect()
functions. The following constants are defined:
Table 2. MySQL client constants | Constant | Description |
|---|
| MYSQL_CLIENT_COMPRESS | Use compression protocol | | MYSQL_CLIENT_IGNORE_SPACE | Allow space after function names | | MYSQL_CLIENT_INTERACTIVE | Allow interactive_timeout seconds (instead of wait_timeout) of
inactivity before closing the connection. | | MYSQL_CLIENT_SSL | Use SSL encryption. This flag is only available with version 4.x
of the MySQL client library or newer. Version 3.23.x is bundled both
with PHP 4 and Windows binaries of PHP 5.
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The function mysql_fetch_array() uses a constant for
the different types of result arrays. The following constants are
defined:
Table 3. MySQL fetch constants | Constant | Description |
|---|
| MYSQL_ASSOC |
Columns are returned into the array having the fieldname as the array
index.
| | MYSQL_BOTH |
Columns are returned into the array having both a numerical index
and the fieldname as the array index.
| | MYSQL_NUM |
Columns are returned into the array having a numerical index to the
fields. This index starts with 0, the first field in the result.
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Note:
Most MySQL functions accept link_identifier as
the last optional parameter. If it is not provided, last opened
connection is used. If it doesn't exist, connection is tried to
establish with default parameters defined in php.ini. If it is not
successful, functions return FALSE.
This simple example shows how to connect, execute a query, print
resulting rows and disconnect from a MySQL database.
Example 1. MySQL extension overview example |
<?php
$link = mysql_connect('mysql_host', 'mysql_user', 'mysql_password')
or die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
echo 'Connected successfully';
mysql_select_db('my_database') or die('Could not select database');
$query = 'SELECT * FROM my_table';
$result = mysql_query($query) or die('Query failed: ' . mysql_error());
echo "<table>\n";
while ($line = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
echo "\t<tr>\n";
foreach ($line as $col_value) {
echo "\t\t<td>$col_value</td>\n";
}
echo "\t</tr>\n";
}
echo "</table>\n";
mysql_free_result($result);
mysql_close($link);
?>
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Nathan Brizzee
03-Apr-2006 08:42
Hi,
For all those who may still be struggling to get PHP to work with Windows and IIS, I finally found something that works.
If you are getting the error message that function mysql_connect could not be found and you're sure you enabled php_mysql in php.ini this is what finally solved my problem.
The post from mmw_canada at yahoo dot com on 10-Jul-2005 06:15 pointed me in the right direction. Thanks mmw_canada!
1.) If you are connected to your Windows box via Remote Desktop, there is a switch to Remote Desktop that will connect you to the console session. This is important because when IIS starts up, it's error messages go to the console. If you are sitting at the physical machine, you can ignore this step.
Here is the command
mstsc -v:10.192.186.xxx /F -console
For a more complete list of supported commands, type this at a dos command window:
mstsc /?
2.) Add a registry entry that tells PHP where to find its php.ini file. Copy the following text and paste it in a text file. Rename the text file to something like phpini.reg and double-click it to add it to your registry.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\PHP]
"IniFilePath"="C:\\\\PHP"
2.) Add c:\\php; (or wherever you unzipped PHP to) to your environment variable "Path". Here is the important part that caused me hours and hours of grief. When adding c:\\php; to the PATH environment variable, make SURE you add it BEFORE the path to CVSNT or MYSQL. PHP, CVSNT, and MYSQL all have a file called libmysql.dll. Search order is important for PHP to find its file libmysql.dll first. PHP must come first in the search path. Otherwise you will get an error from the DLL on the console screen when IIS starts up saying it can't find the specified function call.
To see the order of your environment variables, open up a dos window and type "set" and press enter. Look at what Path is equal to. c:\\php; better come before cvsnt and mysql or it will never work properly.
Hope this helps!
brjann at gmail dot com
01-Apr-2006 12:11
After tearing my eyes out in frustration, I've finally found a way to enable extensions that always works for me. It's pretty straightforward.
1. Download the latest zip-version of PHP.
2. Delete (or backup) the contents of your PHP folder (usually c:\php). (remember to save any ext's not included in the zip)
3. Copy everything in the zip-file into your PHP folder
4. Be sure that extension_dir is set to "./ext" in php.ini
5. Enable whichever extensions you want to use in php.ini
I guess that deleting everything is quite unnecessary, the important thing is that the php.exe and extensions in the same zip are of compatible versions. I've never found any need to change the PATH environment variable.
Hope it helps!
yp
16-Mar-2006 12:08
when using Fedora Core linux Mysql rpm installation.
Configure as following to load the mysql header files.
./configure --with-mysql=/usr/
Remember to do make clean to remove old configurations before compile
php comments of fuzzyworm co., uk
17-Feb-2006 01:13
If you want to get PHP working nicely with MySQL, even with Apache, under Windows based systems, try XAMPP, from Apache Friends. It saves messing about with config files, which is the only major problem with trying to get the three to work together under windows.
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html
elliotthird at tiscali dot co dot uk
03-Feb-2006 07:20
Oops! Don't use that one, use this:
<?php
class database {
function database($server, $username, $password, $database) {
$this->connection = mysql_connect($server, $username, $password);
if (!$this->connection || !mysql_select_db($database, $this->connection)) {
return false;
} else {
return true;
}
}
function query($sql, $type = MYSQL_BOTH) {
$query = mysql_query($sql, $this->connection);
while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($query)) {
$return[] = $row;
}
return $return;
}
}
$database = new database('localhost', 'root', '', 'forum');
if (!$database) {
exit('Could not connect to the database!');
}
?>
jeremy hepler
20-Dec-2005 10:12
For those of you on an OS that has older mysql libs and want to properly authenticate to the modern mysql versions, without the OLD_PASSWORD hack; compile php with where you have installed the latest mysql binary package:
./configure --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql
if you have mysql installed on seperate server, just drop it into the target directory on what ever machine you are compiling it on.
Be sure to "make clean" before building or it may look in the previous place.
Use the output of mysql_get_client_info(); to test before and after.
Joe Greklek
15-Dec-2005 11:15
I've seen alot of newbies getting frustrated over the extenstions not being installed initially, so heres a quick tut for Windows.
It's ok to use the php5 installer. Just be sure to also grab the .zip or "manual" version of php5.
Install it like any other app. It's pretty straight forward. Don't forget to set the securities mentioned in the last message box at the end of the install. Next, If you installed php to c:\php then you will need to add this to your PATH environment variable. This is a very important step.
Now open up the .zip manual version of php5 and extract the ext folder, and "libmysql.dll" to "c:\php\".
You *MUST* set your security permissions on libmysql.dll and the ext folder to READ/READ&EXECUTE for IUSR_"MACHINE_NAME". like my machine is called master<acct = IUSR_MASTER>. If you don't do this you will recieve an ******.dll - Access Denied. type message.
Next edit your php.ini file usually located in c:\windows\.
Find the line for extension_dir variable and make it say
extension_dir = "c:\php\ext\"
Then scroll down a little bit and find the lines that say
;extension=php_mbstring.dll
;extension=php_bz2.dll
;extension=php_curl.dll
;extension=php_dba.dll
;extension=php_dbase.dll
;extension=php_exif.dll
;extension=php_fdf.dll
;extension=php_filepro.dll
;extension=php_gd2.dll
;extension=php_gettext.dll
;extension=php_ifx.dll
just remove the semicolin for each extension you would like loaded. Such as
extention=php_mysql.dll
and so on.
Now just reboot and all should be well. Query away. you basically only need to reboot to update the PATH environment variable. Hope this helps at least 1 person.:)
phil at pelanne dot com
03-Nov-2005 05:46
If you are experiencing extremely slow connections to MySQL from PHP from a Windows 2003 Server it may well not be PHP or IIS - try loading mysql in in 'skip-name-resolve'-Mode.
It may mean the difference between a 10 second load time and a split second load time.
Jonathon Hibbard
21-Sep-2005 08:47
This is a small function I wrote to handle queries on a table.
It can query a table, order and sort, and supports inner joins.
This function also returns the result as a single row or all rows.
Enjoy :
<?php
function getFields($db_name=NULL,$table=NULL,$fields=NULL,$inner=NULL,
$where=NULL,$group_by=NULL,$order_by=NULL,$asc=NULL,
$return_array=true) {
$C_NAME = __CLASS__."::".__FUNCTION__;
$sql = "SELECT ";
is_array($fields) ? $sql .= implode(',',$fields) : $sql .= $fields;
$sql .= " FROM ".$db_name.".".$table;
if(!empty($inner)) {
$total_inners = count($inner);
for($i=0; $i<$total_inners; $i++)
$sql .= " INNER JOIN ".$inner[$i][0].".".$inner[$i][1]."
ON ".$inner[$i][1].".".$inner[$i][2]." =
".$inner[$i][3].".".$inner[$i][2];
}
if(!empty($where)) {
is_array($where) ? $sql .= " WHERE ".implode(' AND ',$where)
: die("Fatal Error : Variable must be an array.
Variable type is : ".gettype($where));
}
!empty($group_by) ? $sql .= " GROUP BY ".$group_by : '';
!empty($order_by) ? $sql .= " ORDER BY ".$order_by : '';
!empty($asc) ? $sql .= " ".$asc : '';
$sql .= " # Query resides in ".__FILE__."->".$C_NAME."
on line ".__LINE__;
if($return_array === true) {
$rst = mysql_query($sql)
or die("An Error Has Occurred!
\n MySQL Error Reports : ".mysql_error()."
\n The Error Occured in ".__FILE__." -> ".$C_NAME);
$i=0;
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($rst)) {
$rowRst[] = $row[$fields[$i]];
$i++;
}
} else {
$rst = mysql_query($sql)
or die("An Error Has Occurred!
\n MySQL Error Reports : ".mysql_error()."
\n The Error Occured in ".__FILE__." -> ".$C_NAME);
$rowRst = mysql_fetch_assoc($rst);
}
return $rowRst;
}
?>
nick smith
19-Sep-2005 10:07
i'm fairly new to this but have just managed to set up (on windows xp) apache 2.0.54 with php 5.0.4 and mySQL 4.1.13, also phpMyAdmin 2.6.4 having had exactly the problems reported by so many others. i wasnt actually aware of mySQL not being loaded in php until i tried to use phpmyadmin and it told me to check my php/mysql configuration.
basically i just did everything that is mentioned by others (setting extension_dir to c:\php\ext ( not c:\php\ext\ ), uncommenting extension=php_mysql.dll from php.ini and putting c:\php into my PATH) but i was still getting the infuriating message when trying to start apache that php_mysql.dll could not be found.
i restarted my machine and it worked! It seems i had to restart windows after editing my PATH. i didnt bother restarting until it was the last resort because on xp i have NEVER had to do this before - changes to System Variables always took effect immediately. I could understand this on, say, windows 98 where you put the addition to your PATH into your autoexec.bat but why i had to do this with xp is a mystery.
Anyway, give it a go, it might save you tearing out prescious hair!
N.
avis_del at yahoo dot com
01-Sep-2005 11:14
I aggree with j at jonathany.com
PHP 5.04 to MySQL,
php_mysql.dll will not found on windows installer (.msi)
just extract from .zip file (can download).
It works.
1. cgi.force_redirect = 0
2. extension_dir = "c:\php\ext"
3. extension=php_mysql.dll
untill on phpinfo.php show
MySQL Support enabled
Active Persistent Links 0
Active Links 0
Client API version 4.1.12
claude(at)claude(dot)nl
25-Aug-2005 05:23
A note on resources
When a resource (e.g. a link identifier) runs out of scope, it is deleted and the associated computer resources (e.g. the tcp link to the database) will be terminated as well. So far so good!
However, in the following code the tcp mysql link persists until the end of execution:
<?php
$conn = mysql_connect('hostname', 'username','password');
$conn = null;
sleep (30);
?>
This is because the internally the link-identifier is being saved, so that subsequent mysql functions will work. There seems to be no way to delete this internal reference.
If you were, however, to open 2 connections, the oldest one will be deleted automatically (so the connection to hostname will terminate at the $conn=null statement, the connection to hostname2 will exist till the end of the script).
<?php
$conn = mysql_connect('hostname', 'username','password');
$conn2 = mysql_connect('hostname2', 'username','password');
$conn = null;
$conn2 = null;
sleep (30);
?>
arjen at mysql dot com
04-Aug-2005 11:26
John Coggeshall wrote a PHP5 ext/mysqli compatibility script for applications that still use the old ext/mysql functions. This prevents the hassle of trying to have both the mysql and mysqli extensions loaded in PHP5, which can be tricky.
The script is at:
http://www.coggeshall.org/oss/mysql2i/
allan666 at NOSPAM dot gmail dot com
20-Jul-2005 01:37
[Editor's Note: In MySQL v5.0+, you can use the INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables to retrieve information on tables, views, databases and so on. --zak@php.net]
Here is a small function to parse a mysql creation table DDL. The function takes a string with the SQL code to create a table and returns the table name, table fields, table key fields and fields type, all in arrays (except by the name, obviously). The function requires that the primary key be named "id" and the foreign keys named "id...". All foreign key types are suposed to be int (or its variations, bigint, etc...). All those restrictions are easily modified to others needs.
Here is a example of a DDL code.
CREATE TABLE `telefones` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`id_tipo_telefone` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
`numero` varchar(15) NOT NULL default '',
`id_pessoa` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
KEY `id_tipo_telefone` (`id_tipo_telefone`),
KEY `id_pessoa` (`id_pessoa`),
CONSTRAINT `0_775` FOREIGN KEY (`id_tipo_telefone`) REFERENCES `tipos_telefone` (`id`),
CONSTRAINT `0_776` FOREIGN KEY (`id_pessoa`) REFERENCES `pessoas` (`id`)
) TYPE=InnoDB
that returns
$tbname = "telefones"
$fields = array("numero");
$kfields = array("id_tipo_telefone","id_pessoa");
$tipos = array("varchar");
Hope it helps...
<?php
function parseQuery($Q, &$tbname, &$fields, &$kfields, &$tipos) {
$Q = str_replace(array(chr(10),chr(13))," ",$Q);
$Q = str_replace(array("'","`")," ",$Q);
preg_match("/([^(]*)\((.*)\)(.*)/",$Q,$A);
$part1 = $A[1];
$part2 = $A[2];
$part3 = $A[3];
preg_match("/(.*) ([a-zA-Z_]+)/",$part1,$A);
$tbname = strtolower($A[2]);
$temp = split(",",$part2);
foreach ($temp as $t) {
preg_match("/ *([a-zA-Z_]+) +([a-zA-Z_]+)(.*)/",$t,$A);
$pcampo = strtolower($A[1]);
$ptipo = strtolower($A[2]);
if (!preg_match("/$pcampo/","primary key constraint id unique foreign") ) {
if ( ($pcampo[0] == "i") && ($pcampo[1] == "d") )
$kfields[] = $pcampo;
else {
$fields[] = $pcampo;
$tipos[] = $ptipo;
}
}
}
}
?>
mmw_canada at yahoo dot com
11-Jul-2005 04:15
I Quote:
"Note: If when starting the web server an error similar to the following occurs: "Unable to load dynamic library './php_mysql.dll'", this is because php_mysql.dll and/or libmysql.dll cannot be found by the system."
Actully, the file may have been found, it is just the wrong version.
The "libmysql.dll" is packaged and sent with a number of applications and it can end up in different place on your computer. The file may even be completely different, so just replacing it may cause problems with the other applications.
I searched for the this file and found that I had a number of different versions on my machine at once. PHP was trying to use the WRONG ONE.
Maybe the name should be changed in later versions so that it doesn't encourage people to commit suicide or pull their hair out.
bahatest at ifrance dot com
07-Jul-2005 08:38
/*
* before mysql 4.1, timestamp have a defined size, but after 4.1, timestamp is equal to... datetime
* so, conversion is automatic when you import your dump in new mysql version, but your script cannot echo dates like before.
* this function took one date on DATETIME format, a size of old timestamp format and return the date in old timestamp format before 4.1
* Note : if $date is in TIMESTAMP format, the function return it unaltered. So we can patch our php code before migrate to 4.1
* @param $date a date in DATETIME format, or TIMESTAMP format after mysql 4.1
* @param $size a size of old TIMESTAMP format (14,12,10,8,6,4 or 2)
* @return the date in old TIMESTAMP format
*/
function mysql_convert_timestamp_to_previous_usage($date, $size) {
$tab=split('[- :]', $date);
if (sizeof($tab) != 6) return $date;
if (($size!= 8) && ($size!= 14)) {
$tab[0]=substr($tab[0], -2);
}
for ($i = 12; $i>$size; $i-=2) {
unset($tab[sizeof($tab)-1]);
}
if ($size== 8) unset($tab[sizeof($tab)-1]);
return implode("", $tab);
}
jimmy dot a dot gunawan at gmail dot com
03-Jul-2005 10:18
I almost desperately connect my apache 2.0.54 winversion to PHP 5.0.4 and MYSQL 4.1.12 under windows, since there are lack of any accurate information to setup them properly.
If you got any error message said: "Call to undefined function mysql_connect()", here is the right tips.
Apache installed in c:\apache\apachegroup
PHP installed in c:\php
Mysql installed in c:\mysql
1. Find and add c:\apache\apachegroup\conf\httpd.conf
with:
ScriptAlias /php/ "c:/php/"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
Action application/x-httpd-php "/php/php-cgi.exe"
2. Go to php directory c:\php then rename php.ini-dist to php.ini
(or make a new php.ini based on old php.ini file),
make sure we set the right extension:
extension_dir = "c:\php\ext"
extension=php_mysql.dll
If you setup an php script that call function php_info();
and you can find table:
MySQL Support enabled
Active Persistent Links 0
Active Links 0
Client API version 4.1.7
that mean the mysql.dll properly attached to suppport the php, happy SQL-ing
Microsoul V3
05-Jun-2005 01:47
I use IIS 6, PHP 5.04, Windows Server 2003 and MySQL 4.1.11. and here is what I was able to figure out.
To get MySQL and PHP to talk to each other, in the php.cfg, dont forget to turn on the tag
cgi.force_redirect = 0, and make sure you set it at 0 (it is default at 1. just delete the semi-colon from in front of it to activate it in the code) Then the phpinfo will say its reading the cfg from your PHP install directory instead of your WINDOWS root. Then your phpinfo will show the MySQL entry that some people may be having a hard time with. No registry settings or copying of anything is needed. Also follow the rest of the excellent help from the user comments. Here's what I did, to make it simple:
I made a folder in the folder tree just above program files (explore your computer) and named it PHP. I extracted the .zip php version into it (not the auto install version). I edited the php.ini-recommended, renamed it to just php, added my sql username, database name, etc.( you really gotta look closely at the cfg file and make sure you dont overlook something). Turned on the extension=php_mysql.dll (just delete the semi-colon thats in front of it). Added the php folder to the PATH (instructions on how to do this are pretty simple, and documented above). I also made the ext folder available to the PATH, but Im not sure if it's really necessary. The user comments are what really helped me, so I thought I would return the favor, and try to expand on this topic a little bit.
noel at nettensity dot com
29-May-2005 09:20
More On Windows 2003 Server / IIS 6.0:
It might (probably) be necessary to add both the path to PHP and the path to the extensions dir to your environmental variables.
To do this:
1) Right-Click on 'My Computer'
2) Select 'Properties'
3) Click the 'Advanced' tab
4) At the bottom of this dialog box, click the 'Environmental Variables' button
5) In the frame titled 'System Variables', scroll-down until you find 'Path'
6)Add your path to PHP and your path to the extensions folder i.e. c:\php;c:\php\ext. Make sure all the paths are seperated by semi-colons, and make sure not to erase any of the other paths already in there.
I meant to include this in my note below, apologies for any confusion.
noel at nettensity dot com
29-May-2005 08:04
Enabling MySQL with Windows Server 2003/IIS 6.0:
Find your php.ini file first, check phpinfo() to see where php is currently looking for php.ini. (i.e. Using the Windows installer for PHP 5.0.4, the php.ini file was placed in the C:\Windows dir.) I recommend, however, that you don't use the installer - go with full manual install.
Set the following in php.ini:
display_errors = on
error_reporting = E_ALL
This will make sure that you'll see any errors that arise during configuration. MAKE SURE TO CORRECT THESE WHEN YOU ARE DONE PLAYING WITH PHP.INI! Do not leave these settings like this on a production machine.
In php.ini set the following:
extension_dir = "pathtoextensions (ususally [yourpathtophp]\ext)"
extension=php_mysql.dll (make sure this is un-commented if its already in your php.ini)
In IIS, open Web Service Extensions, click "Add a new Web service extension..."
Type-in PHP for the extension name
Under required files:
Add [yourpathtophp]\php5isapi.dll
Add [yourpathtophp]\php5ts.dll
Click 'Apply' then click 'OK'
Create web sites like you normally would, but make sure they have executable permissions, not just script access. Under the "Home Directory" tab, click 'Configuration'. Scroll down the list at the top and see if you can find PHP. If you do, make sure the path to the executable for PHP is correct. If you don't find PHP in the list, click 'Add...', then browse to the correct executable, [yourpathtophp]\php5isapi.dll, and click OK. In the extension field, enter 'PHP'. Verbs should already be set to 'All verbs', leave it like that.
Create a test page with this code:
<? echo(phpinfo()); ?>
call it test.php, and place this file into the web site you just created. Browse to the page, with firefox preferably ;), and make sure that you have a MySql section with some MySql info in there. If not, then your paths are possibly screwed up, or you're still not editing the correct php.ini (again, look at the location that phpinfo() shows you, and just edit it there if you have to, then move it afterwards and re-config).
Hope this helps!
disappear dot nz at gmail dot com
22-May-2005 07:39
Hi,
this is a small OOP script to provide an easy connction to the mysql db and to get associative / logical / both arrays.
<?php
class mysql_array
{
public function __construct ( $s_host , $s_user , $s_pass , $s_db )
{
$this -> r_conn = mysql_connect ( $s_host , $s_user , $s_pass ) or die ( mysql_error ( ) ) ;
mysql_select_db ( $s_db ) ;
}
private function array_make ( $s_sql , $i_type )
{
$r_rs = mysql_query ( $s_sql , $this -> r_conn ) or die ( mysql_error ( ) ) ;
while ( $a_col = mysql_fetch_array ( $r_rs , $i_type ) )
{
$a_rs [ ] = $a_col ;
}
mysql_free_result ( $r_rs ) ;
return ( $a_rs ) ;
}
public function array_logic ( $s_sql )
{
$a_rs = $this -> array_make ( $s_sql , MYSQL_NUM ) ;
return ( $a_rs ) ;
}
public function array_assoc ( $s_sql )
{
$a_rs = $this -> array_make ( $s_sql , MYSQL_ASSOC ) ;
return ( $a_rs ) ;
}
public function array_both ( $s_sql )
{
$a_rs = $this -> array_make ( $s_sql , MYSQL_BOTH ) ;
return ( $a_rs ) ;
}
}
$o_mysql = new mysql_array ( 'localhost' , 'user' , 'pass' , 'db' ) ;
$s_sql = "SHOW TABLES" ;
$a_rs = $o_mysql -> array_assoc ( $s_sql ) ;
echo '<pre>' ;
print_r ( $a_rs ) ;
?>
medic at setiherbipolis dot de
15-May-2005 06:42
Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client
means that you're using an old version of MySQL Client ( possibly not mysqli)
Authentication protocol for MySQL has changed with version 4.1.
To get a hint at which mysql-client version you're using try phpinfo();
06-Mar-2005 09:01
If you are installing PHP5 on Windows 2003 server (AKA Win 2k3) and need MySQL to work using the either the php_mysql.dll or php_mysqli.dll or both of them at the same time, and MySQl isn't showing up in phpinfo, then your php.ini is probably not loading. In the direction in the PHP 5 zip file, they will tell you to add your PHP install directory to your windows path. This should tell php where to load its php.ini from but it doesn't. If you want to get this to work, you don't have to copy any DLL's anywhere like everyone suggests. All you have to do is add the folling regsitry key to windows:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PHP]
"IniFilePath"="C:\\PHP"
simply copy the above 2 lines of code into a text file and save the file as php_ini_path.reg
After you save the file it will look like a registry file. Simply double click on it.
It will make it so PHP will look for your php.ini in C:\PHP. I would assume you can edit this if you install php into a different location, but I haven't tried that.
After running the reg file, make sure your php.ini is in your PHP dir and make sure all the appropriate things are set. This should get you up and running. Make sure you also follow all the steps on how to make it work in IIS. This is just an addition to the direction.
Protik Mukherjee
03-Mar-2005 07:34
Fedora mysql problems!!
In Fedora 3 the php mysql module does not come with the default installation. To install it use $>yum install php_mysql
If u dont do this you will get errors with mysql functions like mysql_connect()
Hope this helps!
tumaine no at spam verizon net
23-Dec-2004 06:21
I had a hard time with upgrading to php version 5.2.0 in Windows XP Pro since mySQL queries all of a sudden stopped working and led to blank pages on my site. I spent a good half day searching google trying to figure out this problem, and didn't quite know how compiling PHP would help me. It is not necessary. Set up PHP manually with the ZIP folder download.
This is a good link to read and wish I found it earlier:
http://www.zend.com/manual/install.windows.extensions.php
If you are getting an error popup about not being able to load some mysql.dll when starting apache, you need to change this in your php.ini file:
extension_dir = "./" to something like "c:\php\ext"
Also what I was doing wrong was that I forgot to uncomment the following line in my php.ini file:
extension=php_mysql.dll
Restart apache, and everything should work.
Thought that I could save someone time and frustration when upgrading, since versions 5+ do not include mySQL support by default as earlier versions apparently do.
jon at mysql dot com
11-Dec-2004 12:32
Re Pat's note: You can add the --old-passwords option in the [mysqld] section of your MySQL my.cnf or my.ini configuration file. This option will force the MySQL server to use the old-style password hashing for all connections. This is not really recommended, as it's less secure, but will allow you to use existing accounts without resetting the passwords.
Of course, as already mentioned, you can use the MySQL OLD_PASSWORD() function instead to handle this issue on an account-by-account basis.
The optimal solution when migrating to MySQL 4.1+ from a previous version is to upgrade to PHP 5 (if you're not using it already) and rewrite any code accessing MySQL using the mysqli extension, which is more secure and provides a much better API.
For more information, see the MySQL Manual: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Application_password_use.html
lkujala at uniserve dot com
18-Nov-2004 11:43
PROBLEM:
Error Message: the specified module could not be found.
When trying to load a php_mysql.dll / php_mysqli.dll / php_mssql.dll extension on a Windows platform.
CAUSE:
The standard windows installer package is rather incomplete; it does not include any of the DLL's needed for the optional extensions. In order to use any extension you need to install the FULL zip distribution (unless you like fooling around with dll hell), not just the php_*.dll extensions. You might as well include ALL of the DLL's since the dependencies as documented are wrong (i.e. you need more than libmysql.dll for the php_mysql.dll to load).
I did find the standard windows installer useful for the inital setup though.
nleippe at integr8ted dot com
13-Oct-2004 01:22
trace_mode breaks SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS.
This is because it emits an EXPLAIN <query> before sending the <query> by itself, thus the subsequent SELECT FOUND_ROWS() is no longer the next consecutive query, and the result is zero.
This was true for me for at least MySQL 4.0.21 and 4.1.5gamma.
(PHP 4.3.9)
Melvin Nava: e-4(at)venezolano.web.ve
13-Sep-2004 10:02
To count page hits, just put next code in a text file and include it in every one of your pages. It will log even different querystrings as different pages. (a MySQL database and table is needed first)
This can be a pretty good example of what you can do with PHP and MySQL. I made this script to log and show all hits in: http://www.venezolano.web.ve/
<?php
function page_count($page) {
$c_link = mysql_connect('localhost', 'username', 'password')
or die('counter CONNECT error: '.mysql_errno().', '.mysql_error());
mysql_select_db('database_name');
$c_query = "SELECT * FROM stats_pagecounter
WHERE (page_name = '$page')";
$c_result = mysql_query($c_query, $c_link)
or die('counter SELECT error: '.mysql_errno().', '.mysql_error());
if (mysql_num_rows($c_result)) {
$row=mysql_fetch_array($c_result,MYSQL_ASSOC);
$pcounter = $row['page_hits']+1;
$c_update = "UPDATE stats_pagecounter
SET page_hits = '$pcounter' WHERE page_name = '$page'";
$c_hit = mysql_query($c_update, $c_link)
or die('counter UPDATE error: '.mysql_errno().', '.mysql_error());
} else {
$c_insert = "INSERT INTO stats_pagecounter
VALUES ( '0', '$page', '1')";
$c_page = mysql_query($c_insert, $c_link)
or die('counter INSERT error: '.mysql_errno().', '.mysql_error());
$pcounter = 1;
}
mysql_free_result($c_result);
mysql_close($c_link);
return $pcounter;
}
$phpself_url = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].
$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?'.
$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
$page_hits = page_count($phpself_url);
echo $page_hits;
?>
irn-bru at gmx dot de
27-May-2004 03:27
Note, that the sql.safe_mode configuration setting does effect all mysql_* functions. This has nothing to to with the php safe mode, check the [SQL] section in php.ini.
I found out, that if you set sql.safe_mode = On, mysql_connect will ignore provided username and passwort and makes use of the script owner instead (checked on debian).
Brian
Pat
23-Jan-2004 01:02
[Editor Note:
The password hashing was updated in MySQL 4.1, you must use the MySQLi extension with MySQL 4.1+ (or use the following method to allow
pre 4.1 clients to connect).]
MySQL 5.0 has a new password system, and PHP cannot connect to it because it cannot send a correct password. You must use the MySQL command OLD_PASSWORD() when adding a user to the database, or PHP cannot connect as of the library that comes with PHP 5.0Beta3
soren at byu dot edu
14-Mar-2003 11:23
Let's say that you want to generate a MySQL password hash from a plain text password. Normally, you would just submit the MySQL query "SELECT PASSWORD('password')", but if for some reason you can't access to MySQL database directly, then you can use the following function (translated right out of the MySQL source code):
<?php
function mysql_password($passStr) {
$nr=0x50305735;
$nr2=0x12345671;
$add=7;
$charArr = preg_split("//", $passStr);
foreach ($charArr as $char) {
if (($char == '') || ($char == ' ') || ($char == '\t')) continue;
$charVal = ord($char);
$nr ^= ((($nr & 63) + $add) * $charVal) + ($nr << 8);
$nr2 += ($nr2 << 8) ^ $nr;
$add += $charVal;
}
return sprintf("%08x%08x", ($nr & 0x7fffffff), ($nr2 & 0x7fffffff));
}
?>
example:
<? print mysql_password("hello"); ?>
outputs:
70de51425df9d787
Which is the same result you get if you do "SELECT PASSWORD('hello')" directly in MySQL. Hopefully you'll never be in a situation where you have to use this, but if you need it (like I did), it's here.
past at sbox dot tugraz dot at
22-Feb-2003 12:17
As MySQL docs say, RAND() is not very usefull for generation of randomized result orders.
But this worked for me on Linux, however:
Somewhere before:
mt_srand((double)microtime()*1000000);
"SELECT *, " RAND(".mt_rand(0,86622340).")*10000%100 AS randomvalue ORDER BY randomvalue"
The upper value for mt_rand() has to be Quite Big to see any effect on MySQL's RAND(). The exact number shouldn't be significant. Note the multiplication and modulo; MySQL seems to count steadily upwards when generating random numbers, so we take some numbers from between.
mijnpc at xs4all dot nl
21-Nov-2002 12:33
If you have a Windows machine running a webserver with PHP you don't need to install MySQL server to locally test scripts, if you are granted to establish a Secure Telnet connection (port 22) to the remote webserver.
To do this you need a Secure Telnet client, which supports port-forwarding.
Before you establish a connection, define the port-forward.
Forward local port 3306 to [name or ip of remote server]:3306
Make sure that local ports accept connections from other hosts
Save this session
Connect to remote server with username and password
Minimize the shell and that's it...
You can use the same username (and password) as if you were working on the remote server !
E.g. : $link = mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "") or die("no way jose");
You may get a shell-timeout after xx minutes depending on your remote server, just reconnect or press enter in the shell once in a while...
An example of a superb freeware Secure Telnet client is Putty : Putty : http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
This 'discovery' really has saved me a lot of time because I don't have to upload the scripts to the remote server time and time again, pressing [save] is enough, heh (-:
16-Jun-2002 10:38
Regarding transactions, you must use a recent MySQL version which supports InnoDB tables. you should read the mysql manual (the part about Innodb tables, section 7.5) and configure your server to use them.
Some reading about how it works:
http://php.weblogs.com/discuss/msgReader$1446?mode=topic
(Click where it says Part2, I can't put the direct URL here because it is too long)
Then in PHP you use commands like:
mysql_query("BEGIN");
mysql_query("COMMIT");
mysql_query("ROLLBACK");
You must make sure that you convert your existing tables to innodb or create new ones: CREATE TABLE (...) type=innodb;
jeyoung at priscimon dot com
25-Apr-2002 07:23
[Ed. Note:
This may be due to the fact that subsequent calls to mysql_connect with the same parameters return the same resource id for the connection, so in reality it is using the same connection. In order to force a new link, you must specify the new_link parameter in mysql_connect.]
MySQL transactions
MySQL supports transactions on tables that are of type InnoDB. I have noticed a behaviour which is puzzling me when using transactions.
If I establish two connections within the same PHP page, start a transaction in the first connection and execute an INSERT query in the second one, and rollback the transaction in the first connection, the INSERT query in the second connection is also rolled-back.
I am assuming that a MySQL transaction is not bound by the connection within which it is set up, but rather by the PHP process that sets it up.
This is a very useful "mis-feature" (bug?) because it allows you to create something like this:
class Transaction {
var $dbh;
function Transaction($host, $username, $password) {
$this->dbh = mysql_connect($host, $username, $password);
}
function _Transaction() {
mysql_disconnect($this->dbh);
}
function begin() {
mysql_query("BEGIN", $this->dbh);
}
function rollback() {
mysql_query("ROLLBACK", $this->dbh);
}
function commit() {
mysql_query("COMMIT", $this->dbh);
}
}
which you could use to wrap around transactional statements like this:
$tx =& new Transaction("localhost", "username", "password");
$tx->begin();
$dbh = mysql_connect("localhost", "username", "password");
$result = mysql_query("INSERT ...");
if (!$result) {
$tx->rollback();
} else {
$tx->commit();
}
mysql_disconnect($dbh);
unset($tx);
The benefit of such a Transaction class is that it is generic and can wrap around any of your MySQL statements.
nospam at nospam dot nos
19-Nov-2001 07:17
ever wanted to know the date a table was last updated? use this:
$info = mysql_fetch_array(mysql_query("show table status from databasename like 'tablename'"));
echo $info["Update_time"];
skelley at diff dot nl
26-Sep-2001 12:11
Hi, here's a nice little trick to select records in random order from a table in a MySQL database prior to version 3.23
SELECT *, (ItemID/ItemID)*RAND() AS MyRandom FROM Items ORDER BY MyRandom
[Editors note: And just "SELECT * FROM foo ORDER BY RAND()" after 3.23]
mbabcock-php at fibrespeed dot net
29-Jul-2001 05:41
Since there aren't functions to start and end/rollback transactions, you'll have to use mysql_query("BEGIN"), mysql_query("COMMIT") and mysql_query("ROLLBACK"). These will only work properly on tables that support transactions. You may also wish to roll your own mysql_begin (etc) functions that run the above queries for you.
mw-php at ender dot com
22-Jun-2001 07:11
The mysql_fetch_[row|object|array] functions return data as type string. Owing to the very flexible nature of php variables, this is normally not relevent, but if you happen to retrieve two integers from a database, then try to compare with bitwise operators, you'll run into trouble, because (19 & 2) == 2, but ("19" & "2") == 0. To remedy this, if you use variables from a database with bitwise operators, use the settype() function to explicitly cast your variables as integers before comparing.
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