Question

I have a problem with my database! Here is my code:

<?php
$host = "/homes/49/jc192699/public_html/dbase";
$database = "EduPro.db";
$dbhandle = new PDO("sqlite:".$host.$database);

if (!$dbhandle){
echo "Error connecting to database.\n";
}

else{
echo "<br>";
echo "<br>";
echo "Database connection successful!";
}

mysql_select_db($database);

?> 

The problem is that it’s saying “Database connection successful!” No matter what I do, if I type the address in wrong, it still says successful, when I renamed the database to a database that doesn’t exist, it still says successful. I can’t see what the problem is here?

If anybody could help me out it would be GREATLY appreciated!

Thank you!

Answer 1

For starters, the PDO constructor throws an exception if there is an error. It does not return false. Check for errors using

try {
    $dbhandle = new PDO("sqlite:".$host.$database);
} catch (PDOException $e) {
    echo 'Connection failed: ' . $e->getMessage();
}

Secondly, as you are using SQLite, provided your dbase directory is writeable by the script, your connection attempt will create an empty database.