Question

Few days back i suddenly came up with getting empty result, I was surprised and then check out the mysql_error function and then got this 2006: Mysql server has gone away. The problem is that it doesn’t comes everytime, but sometimes only for the same query.

I have checked out many questions here at stackoverflow as well as many blogs on the web, but I found no possible solution for this error

Today, I wrote this function for that and the error gones away,

$conn = mysql_connect($this->host, $this->dbUser, $this->dbPass);
    $db_select = mysql_select_db($this->dbName, $conn);

    for($i=0;mysql_error($conn) != 2006;$i++)
    {
        $result = mysql_query($sql, $conn);
        if($i > 10){break;}
    }

I wanna ask the professionals that if it it is the proper way of getting rid of this kinda situation or it is the wrong method for that

Answer 1

This error will occurr when the MySQL server has been restarted / unavailable. It could be happening on a specific query if the query is causing some kind of problem (can’t say more without knowing what the query does).

Either way, this error is valid and shouldn’t be ignored. You need to find out WHY it is being raised in the first place.

You can use the mysql_ping function to check if the server is available before running a query rather than catching the error.