Question

Can someone explain me how does PHP interacts with MySQL. I want to know when I make queries using mysql_query when the connection is closed. Or should I use mysql_close()…

I thought that the connection is open while the page is being interpret and closes when it’s done with interpreting.

Answer 1

The connection remains open from the mysql_connect call until either:

• mysql_close is called
• the reference to the connection ($db = mysql_connect...) is unset (with unset, or falls out of scope)
• the script finishes executing