Question

I’m following this tutorial.

When I run php scripts/load.mysql.php it says:

SQLSTATE[42000] [1102] Incorrect database name ‘/home/tirengarfio/workspace/ZendFW/gaziende/application/../data/db/guestbook-dev.db’

So I just tried to change the line

resources.db.params.dbname = APPLICATION_PATH "/../data/db/guestbook-dev.db"

to

resources.db.params.dbname = "guestbook-dev" and created a new database called guestbook.

but I get another error about the “guestbook” is not a file, exactly:

PHP Warning: file_get_contents(/home/tirengarfio/workspace/ZendFW/gaziende/scripts/data.mysql.sql): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/tirengarfio/workspace/ZendFW/gaziende/scripts/load.mysql.php on line 81

This is the code around the line 81 error (checkout what var_dump() returns):

// Check to see if we have a database file already
$options = $bootstrap->getOption('resources');
$dbFile  = $options['db']['params']['dbname'];
if (file_exists($dbFile)) {
    unlink($dbFile);
}

// this block executes the actual statements that were loaded from
// the schema file.
try {
    $schemaSql = file_get_contents(dirname(__FILE__) . '/schema.mysql.sql');
    // use the connection directly to load sql in batches
    $dbAdapter->getConnection()->exec($schemaSql);
    var_dump($dbFile);die(); // this returns "guestbook-dev"
    chmod($dbFile, 0666);

So.. how should I set the name for the database connection exactly?

Note: the example of the tutorial is for Sqlite and I’m trying to use MySQL. Is that point? I never used Sqlite.

Regards

Answer 1

here are the basic application.ini settings for a Mysql db,

resources.db.adapter = "pdo_Mysql"
resources.db.params.username = "username"
resources.db.params.password = "password"
resources.db.params.dbname = "database name"
resources.db.params.charset = "utf8"
resources.db.isDefaultTableAdapter = true //optional but very helpful if you only have one db

Mysql Needs a little more info then SqlLite.

As far as populating the DB for this Tutorial I just took the easy way and copied the SQL into phpmyadmin.

Note:
If you’ve never used SqlLite before, this might be great chance to learn something new. This tutorial really doesn’t need Mysql. 🙂