Posted by Robin Vickery on 09/28/05 11:13

If you make two calls to mysql_connect with the same parameters, the
second will not make a new connection - it will return the existing
connection. The manual explains this:

http://www.php.net/mysql_connect

"If a second call is made to mysql_connect() with the same arguments,
no new link will be established, but instead, the link identifier of
the already opened link will be returned. The new_link parameter
modifies this behavior and makes mysql_connect() always open a new
link, even if mysql_connect() was called before with the same
parameters."

-robin

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