I get string(1) "", should that be taken just the same as 0? In addition phpinfo() indicates php 5.0.4 - does the upgrade to .5 involve remove .4 first? btw, as I'm new to the mailing list thing, why do some names appear in quotes and others do not? Thanks, Matt "Curt Zirzow" <czirzow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:20051124012828.GH11507@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 06:48:50PM -0500, Matt Monaco wrote: >> Thanks for your attention Curt, but unfortunatly that is not the issue. >> Compatibility mode is not on. > > What does this say just before you do $link = new ...: > > var_dump(ini_get('zend.ze1_compatibility_mode')); > > If it says string(1) "0", then either your using php4 or some buggy > version of php5. > >> For documentation's sake, I think the problem is that there are other >> links >> in the code using the same credentials. When you declare a link resource >> to >> a database, PHP first searches to see if there is already one open, >> therefore despite the fact that this link wasn't even using the same >> library >> (mysql vs mysqli) it didn't matter; only one connection to the database >> could be made (as root in this case). >> >> If this is incorrect or anyone has additional insight, please reply. > > Only the old mysql extension has any sort of credential checking > and if they are the same, returns the same connection (which can be > bypassed with an option to mysql_connect(). mysqli has no such > credential checking. > > > Curt. > -- > cat .signature: No such file or directory -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
