Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 12/05/07 12:07

AnrDaemon wrote:
> Greetings, bizt.
> In reply to Your message dated Monday, December 3, 2007, 07:08:59,
>
>> Hi,
>
>> Ive just installed PEAR on my local machine and all is well, updated
>> the include_path to point to my PEAR dir. So, when I just try to make
>> a simple connection like so the script just seems to stop but no error
>> messsages. I do get error messages normally (ie. when I can a method
>> from an object that doesnt actually exist) as I have set
>> display_errors = On in php.ini.
>
>> Anyway, heres my code:
>
>> <?php
>
> And here is your error:
>
>> include('PEAR/DB/DB.php');
>
> It *SHOULD* be simple
>
> include('DB.php');
>
> if you have PEAR installed right. Otherwise PEAR::DB can't find and load it's
> connectors and fails immediately at DB::connect().
>
>> Btw Im using MySQL 5 so I understand that the prefix above in the DSN
>> should be 'mysqli'.
>
> You understand it wrong. Go to MySQL website and study the difference between
> mysql and mysqli extensions. It is not a PHP related discussion.
>

Actually, it is. mysql and mysqli are two different ways of accessing
MySQL from PHP. mysql is the functional interface and mysqli is the OO
interface.

>> My script just stops at theline ..
>
>> $conn = DB::connect($dsn);
>
> As expected - PEAR::DB can't load proper connector.
>
>

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