Arrrrrrrrgh! GLOBALS GLOBALS GLOBALS. For a future suckers' reference,
the variable was not available in its scope, and was thus passing null as
the username to mysql_connect, which in turn was connecting to the
database as "@localhost".
Thanks for your help, pardon my stupidity :)
Kind regards,
Elliot.
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Elliot Mackenzie wrote:
I have an update for this.
I used mysql_connect to connect to the database and then ran the query
"select current_user()". I discovered that despite using mysql_connect
specifying a username and password, it still insisted on connecting as
"@localhost", but with no user.
The @localhost user does not have the permissions it needs to show databases
other than "test", and this explains 100% why I am seeing the results I am
seeing. I can login to the command-line client and see exactly what PHP is
seeing now (which is a relief).
The question is now: why would I be connecting as "@localhost" instead of
"user@localhost" when I specify both a username and password along with
mysql_connect?
There are no mysql-related defaults set in php.ini other than a path to the
socket.
Kind regards,
Elliot.
Martin Norland wrote:
Elliot Mackenzie wrote:
I have encountered a "hidden database" issue with mod_php, apache2 and
mySQL that I have thus far been unable to resolve.
I am able to connect to the mysql socket using mysql_connect, but then
find that mysql_list_dbs only returns the "test" database. This
*sounded* like an issue with the SHOW DATABASES privilege until I found
I was able to log in to the same MySQL server *as the same user* with
the provided command-line client (mysql) and SHOW DATABASES would
display all the other databases on this system.
Furthermore, I tried connecting as root, and again found only the
"test"
database was visible to PHP. If I dropped the test database, no
databases were visible to PHP (regardless of how many databases were
visible using SHOW DATABASES). If I created "test", "tester",
"testing", "hello" etc, then the "test" database would reappear to PHP,
but no other databases were visible.
I also tried to connect PHP to MySQL as a super-user, and encountered
the exact same issue.
Steps to confirm question:
1) Connect using php, drop 'test' database.
2) Confirm php no longer sees 'test' database.
3) Connect using mysql client, confirm test database is missing.
4) -----\
4a) if so, check mysql database to confirm permissions for root
include '%' databases and not just 'test'.
4b) if not, change php code to connect to correct mysql server.
Apologies that this may not be very useful, but your problem is
extremely odd - if it's *not* a permissions / database error.
Cheers,
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