Duel MySQL Connect

June 21st, 2008, 11:57 am

Alright, I have a problem at my site... I use one class to connect and select a database... all done at the same function... my database name, host, user and the password is defined in the siteConfig. Here is the class that connects and selects that I use...

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1. <?php
2. class db {
3.  
4.   # Class constructor and main
5.   # function
6.  
7.   function connect($constant_url,$select = true) {
8.     include($constant_url);
9.     $con = mysql_connect($dbHost,$dbUser,$dbPass) or die(mysql_error() ." ( at line <strong>".  (__LINE__) ."</strong> in <strong>". (__FILE__) ."</strong>)");
10.     if($con)
11.     {
12.       if($select == true)
13.       {
14.         $selectdb = mysql_select_db($dbDb) or die(mysql_error() ." ( at line <strong>".  (__LINE__) ."</strong> in <strong>". (__FILE__) ."</strong>)");
15.         if($selectdb)
16.         {
17.           return true;
18.         } else {
19.           return false;
20.         }
21.       } else {
22.         return true;
23.       }
24.     } else {
25.       return false;
26.     }
27.   }
28. }
29. ?>

And the problem can be seeing here.

Go to the forum and you will see that it opens properly and that you can read the topics and everything... now go to guides/tutorials and you will see that the thing tries to connect to mysql using root as a user and my user is not root. Of course the forum uses MySQL so it connects there properly but at the guides/tutorials it does not connect properly.

No where in guides_tutorials.php do I re-define the MySQL variables... I can't find the problem as I use one class and one set of defined functions to connect... how can one variable hold two different information in them? Please help... I'm stuck

The problem occured after I fixed it with a bug where it interpreted the \r\n's... It doesn't anymore but it also doesn't work anymore as well

[George L.]

June 22nd, 2008, 8:22 am

How many tables do you have?

June 22nd, 2008, 11:45 am

1 Database created by me and it has 9 tables so far...

[spork]

June 22nd, 2008, 11:50 am

Let's step back a moment and look at how your code is structured. Why are you using a class for your DB functionality if all it contains is a function? It looks to me like you're calling the function and including a bunch of DB constants from another file. These really should be data members of the class.

June 22nd, 2008, 11:58 am

The reason I do this is because the files are in different directories so the file that is supposed to be included changes from Includes/siteConfig.php to ../Includes/siteCOnfig.php and all of the database constants are stored in the site configuration file

[SpooF]

June 22nd, 2008, 12:41 pm

I would suggest that you pass your database information to the function in the class. You can store the values in another file, but one of the idea behind a class is that can be used in more than one instance.

June 22nd, 2008, 1:26 pm

Nevermind... stupid me, I accidentally uploaded the SiteConfig to another directory and for some reason, it was taking that siteConfig rather than the one in the includes... it's all fixed now... thanks