Question

I am trying to connect to a postgreSQL db with the following code.

<?php
    error_reporting(-1);
    $dbh = new PDO('pgsql:dbname=southpark;host=localhost', 'jaseem' , 'DBPassword');
    var_dump( $dbh );
?>

It quits with an error message object(PDO)#1 (0) { }

How do i solve this issue ? Where did i go wrong ? Apache ? postgreSQL ? or php ?

Answer 1

That’s not an error – you’re getting a PDO object. If the PDO instantiation failed, it’d thrown an error and not do the var_dump. If there was some other error, you can check $dbh->errorCode() and $dbh->errorInfo() for details.